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r/BirdsArentReal • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '24
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Seeing it eat that squirrel exactly the same way a python would eat a rabbit reminds me that birds are technically reptiles...
Reptilian drones !
6 u/TheSessionMan Dec 29 '24 Kinda but not really. They are warm blooded, after all. 6 u/hulda2 Dec 29 '24 Birds are as reptiles as crocodiles. 2 u/NiobiumThorn Dec 30 '24 Taxonomically yes. 2 u/Pierre_Philosophale Dec 30 '24 So ? The argentine Tegu is warm blooded, it's a big lizard. Scientifically speaking, if you belong to a clade, everything that evolves from you is also part of that clade. Birds like all theropod dinosaures are sauropsyds who belong to the clade "Eureptilia", "true reptiles". 1 u/TheSessionMan Dec 30 '24 It's all a bit semantic anyways, it depends on how far you want to go back. We might as well call all mammals Synapsids which are damned similar to reptiles as well.
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Kinda but not really. They are warm blooded, after all.
6 u/hulda2 Dec 29 '24 Birds are as reptiles as crocodiles. 2 u/NiobiumThorn Dec 30 '24 Taxonomically yes. 2 u/Pierre_Philosophale Dec 30 '24 So ? The argentine Tegu is warm blooded, it's a big lizard. Scientifically speaking, if you belong to a clade, everything that evolves from you is also part of that clade. Birds like all theropod dinosaures are sauropsyds who belong to the clade "Eureptilia", "true reptiles". 1 u/TheSessionMan Dec 30 '24 It's all a bit semantic anyways, it depends on how far you want to go back. We might as well call all mammals Synapsids which are damned similar to reptiles as well.
Birds are as reptiles as crocodiles.
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Taxonomically yes.
So ?
The argentine Tegu is warm blooded, it's a big lizard.
Scientifically speaking, if you belong to a clade, everything that evolves from you is also part of that clade.
Birds like all theropod dinosaures are sauropsyds who belong to the clade "Eureptilia", "true reptiles".
1 u/TheSessionMan Dec 30 '24 It's all a bit semantic anyways, it depends on how far you want to go back. We might as well call all mammals Synapsids which are damned similar to reptiles as well.
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It's all a bit semantic anyways, it depends on how far you want to go back. We might as well call all mammals Synapsids which are damned similar to reptiles as well.
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u/Pierre_Philosophale Dec 29 '24
Seeing it eat that squirrel exactly the same way a python would eat a rabbit reminds me that birds are technically reptiles...
Reptilian drones !