#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/

  • 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.