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If you’re confused: Birds are dinosaurs, crocodiles aren’t; note the “closest living relatives”
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Forgive my ignorance on the subject, but huh?
Clearly I missed a briefing somewhere. I thought that crocodiles were from that era, or is that the joke that I'm somehow missing?
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The joke is that birds aren't only related to dinos, but are dinos themselves.
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Yes and the cruel part is... Pterosaurs are not Dinosaurs!
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It might be easy to brush off my complaint as a case of paleo-pedantry, but word choice matters. "Dinosaur" is a word for a specific group of creatures united by shared characteristics and which had their own evolutionary history—it is not a catch-all term for anything reptilian and prehistoric.
We have known about this distinction for a long time, and I bet that your average 10-year old paleo fan would know not confuse the groups.
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So, it's a joke about the fact that both are essentially dinosaurs?
.. nope, I got nothing ..
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Here's my take:
Low IQ: crosc looks like dinos so they are the cloests living relative to dinos. Mid IQ: birds are direct descendents of dinos so they are the closest living relatives to dinos. High IQ: since birds are direct descendent they are just dinos, not a relative. Which makes crocs the next closest living relative to dinos/birds.
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