• @[email protected]
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    177 months ago

    Modern birds almost certainly evolved directly from the Dramaeosaurus, not T. Rex, but otherwise, great meme.

    • @illumrial
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      177 months ago

      No need to be so dramaetic about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      97 months ago

      U sure? Because dromaesaurus lived during the end cretaceous, birds were already a thing. Aurornis, which can be considered the earliest known bird, lived almost 80 million years before dromaesaurus. Even if you meant the dromaesaurid clade, birds aren’t usually classified in it, and possibly predate it.

      Tho it’s true that birds are closer to dromaesaurus than to T-Rex, as birds and romaesaurids are part of the maniraptora clade.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 months ago

        Interesting. I was already out of school in 2013 so never knew about this discovery. Thank you for letting me know.

    • @HonoraryMancunian
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      27 months ago

      Fun fact (if you’re a super pedant like me) the r is officially lower case in T. rex

      • @[email protected]
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        27 months ago

        I used to be super pedant, but my wife threatened to leave, so now I am just a regular one.

        Thank you for the correction.