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queerlilhayseed 56 points 5 months ago

dinosaur-era bird

So, a dinosaur?

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Deconceptualist 25 points 5 months ago

Avian dinosaur, but yeah we should totally just call it a dino wing for short.

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Evil_Shrubbery 10 points 5 months ago

Well, no.
Modern birbs became a proper distinct group around that time (no teeth, modern wing structure, etc).
They cohabited with proper dinosaurs & flew around along with "pterosauromorpha" (flying lizardos). (At the time they didn't have any flying mammals tho.)

And the distinctions come from bone structures & the few feathers that we discovered - so if someone with knowledge would say that feather came from a bird (with features found in modern birds today) and not a dinosaur, I would be inclined to believe them.

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scytale 41 points 5 months ago

100 million years spelled out like that gives it a lot more scale of how long ago that is.

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squaresinger 12 points 5 months ago

And still it doesn't really, considering the exponential scale used for writing down numbers.

The only way that would really give a proper sense of scale is the good old tally list. But with that it would harldy be possible to count up to 100 million.

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SippyCup 9 points 5 months ago

Nonsense, we can crowd source this. Look, I'll start:

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Soulg 2 points 5 months ago

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jaybone 4 points 5 months ago

We could write a bot to do this.

How many bits have been sent over the internet? Probably more than that measly 100 billion.

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username_1 2 points 5 months ago
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egrets 5 points 5 months ago

And this is the mid-Cretaceous -- as feathered dinosaurs go, Anchiornis was around 60,000,000 years before that, and Kulindadromeus perhaps even earlier.

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Lemmine 23 points 5 months ago

Forbidden potato chip. No seriously, this is pretty damn cool

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Ensign_Crab 17 points 5 months ago

5 second rule has long since passed, yes.

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Sturgist 3 points 5 months ago

Depends on where you start the count from 🤔

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Ensign_Crab 4 points 5 months ago

Or how broad a time scale we're talking about. On a stellar evolution time scale, it's roughly 5 seconds.

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Sturgist 3 points 5 months ago

Touché

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FosterMolasses 2 points 5 months ago

We need to get a c/ForbiddenSnacks already

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MonkderVierte 7 points 5 months ago

Only the pic?

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Artisian 6 points 5 months ago

no link?

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SpaceFacts 3 points 5 months ago
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betanumerus 5 points 5 months ago
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SpaceFacts 5 points 5 months ago
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betanumerus 9 points 5 months ago
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points 5 months ago

That reminds me I should call her

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Mongostein 2 points 5 months ago

Clone it!

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Etterra 2 points 5 months ago

I'm sure there's no possible way that could ever go wrong.

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BarneyPiccolo 2 points 5 months ago

So what are you waiting for? Extract the DNA, and get to cloning. We have a Dinobird Air Force to build!

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FosterMolasses 2 points 5 months ago

Coooooooooooooooooooool

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NickwithaC 1 point 5 months ago

Poor bird ☹️

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Evil_Shrubbery 3 points 5 months ago

Maybe it came from a pillow ...

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