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If you’re confused: Birds are dinosaurs, crocodiles aren’t; note the “closest living relatives”
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The joke is that birds aren't only related to dinos, but are dinos themselves.
Yes and the cruel part is... Pterosaurs are not Dinosaurs!
https://xkcd.com/2501/
So, it's a joke about the fact that both are essentially dinosaurs?
.. nope, I got nothing ..
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.