Message from @dumblebore 🌈
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oh
like the flying ones?
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pterosaurs are not dinosaurs
small feathered Dino's became modern birds
well they still are dinosaurs in phylogenic clasification
oh
so how did they get to flying?
in linaean clasification idk
they use the feathers to insulate themselves and the eggs
the longer feathers where used for the eggs
my school taught me that aves is a separate class only, just like reptiles and mammals lol
eventually they where able to use the feathers to propell themselves
ah
in lineaen clasification aves is seperate
@Moist Mayonnaise to put it into a term you'd understand it's like arguing about aether being consistent with special realtivity. Small details that don't really matter but easy to be mistaken about
they used the feathers to propell themselves in aiding climbing trees
then eventually that led to gliding and then flying
That's only one theory, the other one is that they chased flying bugs and that's how I they began flying
well thast one way
gliding from trees or just rnning on land
@dumblebore 🌈 yes, but mammals are also descended from reptiles
because they evolved from reptiles they are by deffinition reptiles in phylogenic clasification
So you need to make a distinction and not use only one classification
what we call the first reptile is kinda arbitrary tho
This says it better than I could
but then didn't life begin from the sea?
Yeah it did
so then aren't we all descended from pisces or aquatic animals then?
tyhere where reptilian animals arround way before the reptile group first apeared
yes
It's almost as if species are completely arbitrary
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the only solution is to either clasify mamals and reptiles as fish
or that fish has no meaning
in phylogenic clasification
if fish has a meaning then its basicly synnonymous with chordata
or at least a shortly decended group from that
What are you on about