starlord@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoWhat would dinosaur meat taste like?lemm.eeimagemessage-square75linkfedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down125file-text
arrow-up1127arrow-down1imageWhat would dinosaur meat taste like?lemm.eestarlord@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square75linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldBanned from communitylinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 years agoWhy evolve more when they’ve already figured it all out?
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 years agoTo fly maybe. Not sure, it just seems biologically conservative when every other surviving dinosaur became birds, fish, and mammals.
minus-squareivanafterall@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 years agoThank God crocodiles didn’t learn to fly.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldBanned from communitylinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years agoWhy are you pretending that dragons don’t exist?
minus-squarecolorlessness@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoNah that would be tight, bring on our flying crocodile overlords
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoWe’d salute them with a “crikey!”
minus-square0ops@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years ago🎶 Alligator-lizards in the aaaaairrr, in the aaaaaaaaaaaaaaairrr 🎶
minus-squaresnooggums@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 years agoFish existed first, reptiles evolved from fish. Mammals evolved from reptiles alongside dinosaurs who also evolved from reptiles. The only dinosaurs that survived the mass extinction 65 million years ago were birds.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoEvolution isn’t always a forward process. Hence how we have cetaceans and why crabs evolved into existence five separate times.
minus-squaresnooggums@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoThat doesn’t have anything to do with the timeline of fish > reptiles > dinosaur evolution.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoThat’s what I mean by a “forward process”. Often people think evolution always goes that one way you describe.
minus-squareShialac@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoA lot of dinosaurs died out, crocodiles are still around. Checkmate evolution
Why evolve more when they’ve already figured it all out?
To fly maybe. Not sure, it just seems biologically conservative when every other surviving dinosaur became birds, fish, and mammals.
Thank God crocodiles didn’t learn to fly.
Why are you pretending that dragons don’t exist?
Nah that would be tight, bring on our flying crocodile overlords
We’d salute them with a “crikey!”
🎶 Alligator-lizards in the aaaaairrr, in the aaaaaaaaaaaaaaairrr 🎶
Fish existed first, reptiles evolved from fish. Mammals evolved from reptiles alongside dinosaurs who also evolved from reptiles.
The only dinosaurs that survived the mass extinction 65 million years ago were birds.
Evolution isn’t always a forward process. Hence how we have cetaceans and why crabs evolved into existence five separate times.
That doesn’t have anything to do with the timeline of fish > reptiles > dinosaur evolution.
That’s what I mean by a “forward process”. Often people think evolution always goes that one way you describe.
A lot of dinosaurs died out, crocodiles are still around.
Checkmate evolution