#xkcd No. 3204

Date: 2026-2-6

Title: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

Alt text: Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.

https://xkcd.com/3204/

  • stephen@lazysoci.alEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    Are birds dinosaurs?

    I thought that they descended from dinosaurs. And - that doesn’t make them dinosaurs, right?

    • Apepollo11@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      Taxonomically speaking, birds are dinosaurs.

      There isn’t a place to put a line between them - all the things that make birds “birds” also apply to dinosaurs.

      A super fun fact is that of the two main types of dinosaur, Saurischia (“lizard-hipped”) and Ornithischia (“bird-hipped”), birds actually evolved from the lizard-hipped group.