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[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

Probably like crocodiles, which is already a delicacy in some places. In fact, crocodiles are already dinosaurs, the only ones who were too lazy to evolve into anything.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 19 points 6 months ago

crocodiles are already dinosaurs

Technically, chickens are dinosaurs. Crocodiles are not, though they are as old as the non-avian dinosaurs with little in the way of evolutionary change.

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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Why evolve more when they've already figured it all out?

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago

To fly maybe. Not sure, it just seems biologically conservative when every other surviving dinosaur became birds, fish, and mammals.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 10 points 6 months ago

Thank God crocodiles didn't learn to fly.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Why are you pretending that dragons don't exist?

[-] colorlessness@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Nah that would be tight, bring on our flying crocodile overlords

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

We'd salute them with a "crikey!"

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

๐ŸŽถ Alligator-lizards in the aaaaairrr, in the aaaaaaaaaaaaaaairrr ๐ŸŽถ

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Evolution isn't always a forward process. Hence how we have cetaceans and why crabs evolved into existence five separate times.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

That doesn't have anything to do with the timeline of fish > reptiles > dinosaur evolution.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

That's what I mean by a "forward process". Often people think evolution always goes that one way you describe.

[-] Shialac@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

A lot of dinosaurs died out, crocodiles are still around.

Checkmate evolution

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 5 points 6 months ago

Crocodiles are not dinosaurs, they are reptiles.

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Both are reptiles. But the crocs and dinos are different lineages.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I dunno, I've read that dinosaurs were warm-blooded and didn't really correspond with any category we use to sort animals today.

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