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Derpenheim lemmy.zip Derpenheim@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-03-07
#52 · Quote Reply

I wonder what proto-bacteria we mutated from, probably bacterium. The maternal DNA in our mitochrondria might offer clues.

Which is why we are not prokaryotes or archaea. We are eukaryotes!

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ubergeek lemmy.today ubergeek@lemmy.today
Joined: 2024-11-27
#53 · Quote Reply

This is just incorrect. Theropods had feathers. Most dinosaurs including the earliest ones up to sauropods were featherless.

fair enough.

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LillyPip lemmy.ca LillyPip@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-07-08
#54 · Quote Reply

THOSE DINOSAURS?! You mean the birds that went extinct in the 17th and 20th centuries?! Edit: this comment annoyed me so much that I went and did research. Apparently, dinosaur no longer means reptiles that went extinct 66 million years ago. Not only are the feathery, hollow-boned bitches known as avian theropods considered dinosaurs, but everything that evolved from them also apparently gets t...

happy belated birthday. 🎂.

If it makes you feel any better, the reason for this is that you can’t evolve out of your clade, and modern birds evolved from therapod dinosaurs.

For the same reason you can’t evolve out of your clade, humans are apes, we’re old world monkeys, and we’re also still fish.

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DonkeyStar lemmy.world DonkeyStar@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-07-23
#55 · Quote Reply

happy belated birthday. 🎂. If it makes you feel any better, the reason for this is that you can’t evolve out of your clade, and modern birds evolved from therapod dinosaurs. For the same reason you can’t evolve out of your clade, humans are apes, we’re old world monkeys, and we’re also still fish.

As long as we’re still fish, I’m okay with it.

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