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After a certain age people stop asking you what your favorite dinosaur is, and I think that's sad.

My current one's the Anchiornis, because it's in the same clade as birds so it's in their family tree, and it really looks like a prototype of a bird. It had 4 wings for example, but it already looked very birb-y:

(Figured I'd just turn an earlier comment into an actual post because why not)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I still can’t believe the fact that they used to exist

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Right? And what's really wild is that birds are literally dinosaurs. Not just descended from dinosaurs, but classified as feathered theropods and the only known living dinosaurs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

But haven't they extincted by the astroid?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No they haven't, if you go outside you might even see some!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Birds are not real though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Most dinosaurs did go extinct! Now there's only the avialan "branch" left which includes all modern birds, and their extinct ancestors like eg. the Archaeopteryx

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