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r/interestingasfuck • u/Significant_Snow_718 • Mar 06 '25
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101 u/Winter-Actuary-9659 Mar 06 '25 Well they are related. 7 u/DizzyGlizzy029 Mar 06 '25 Nope, birds ARE dinosaurs. Not related. Most people actually don't know this lol 16 u/pseudoHappyHippy Mar 06 '25 And by extension there is no cladistically valid way to define reptiles without including the birds. Alligators are literally closer in relation to penguins than they are to lizards, or any other reptile for that matter. 5 u/DizzyGlizzy029 29d ago That's why I love science lol. It's so wacky 3 u/Hc_Svnt_Dracons 29d ago You will probably love Clint's Reptiles: Animal Phylogenies. He goes over every clade he can from extinct to extant.
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Well they are related.
7 u/DizzyGlizzy029 Mar 06 '25 Nope, birds ARE dinosaurs. Not related. Most people actually don't know this lol 16 u/pseudoHappyHippy Mar 06 '25 And by extension there is no cladistically valid way to define reptiles without including the birds. Alligators are literally closer in relation to penguins than they are to lizards, or any other reptile for that matter. 5 u/DizzyGlizzy029 29d ago That's why I love science lol. It's so wacky 3 u/Hc_Svnt_Dracons 29d ago You will probably love Clint's Reptiles: Animal Phylogenies. He goes over every clade he can from extinct to extant.
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Nope, birds ARE dinosaurs. Not related. Most people actually don't know this lol
16 u/pseudoHappyHippy Mar 06 '25 And by extension there is no cladistically valid way to define reptiles without including the birds. Alligators are literally closer in relation to penguins than they are to lizards, or any other reptile for that matter. 5 u/DizzyGlizzy029 29d ago That's why I love science lol. It's so wacky 3 u/Hc_Svnt_Dracons 29d ago You will probably love Clint's Reptiles: Animal Phylogenies. He goes over every clade he can from extinct to extant.
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And by extension there is no cladistically valid way to define reptiles without including the birds. Alligators are literally closer in relation to penguins than they are to lizards, or any other reptile for that matter.
5 u/DizzyGlizzy029 29d ago That's why I love science lol. It's so wacky 3 u/Hc_Svnt_Dracons 29d ago You will probably love Clint's Reptiles: Animal Phylogenies. He goes over every clade he can from extinct to extant.
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That's why I love science lol. It's so wacky
3 u/Hc_Svnt_Dracons 29d ago You will probably love Clint's Reptiles: Animal Phylogenies. He goes over every clade he can from extinct to extant.
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You will probably love Clint's Reptiles: Animal Phylogenies. He goes over every clade he can from extinct to extant.
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