#birds are reptiles

[peregrinethegryphon]

Comparing Superficial Traits From Opposite Ends of the Sauropsid Family Tree Through a Visual Medium to Make a Point

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Bird Are Reptiles: The Gifset

Footage Sources: (x)(x)(x)(x)(x)(x)(x)

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

What other, if any, critters are dinosaur descendant? Is my ball python related to dinosaurs nearly or distantly?

only birds are dinosaur descendants

other reptiles, aka crocs, lizards, snakes, tuatara, and turtles, are all cousins of dinosaurs, but not their descendants

in fact, here's some helpful wikipedia diagrams

[aplpaca]

Bruh,,,,

[plasticstrawsmuggler]

Did you know that birds are in the same class as reptiles? AND in the same subclass as crocodiles.

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[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees KEVIN!

In 2019 I created a copy of my life-size Ichthyostega model, for Reading University's Cole Museum. They named him Kevin.

[herpsandbirds]

A Rose-ringed Parakeet (Psittacula krameri), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, drives a Bengal Monitor Lizard (Varanus bengalensis), family Varanidae, away from its nest in Keoladeo National Park, Thune, India

photograph by Hira Punjabi

[claypigeonpottery]

I decided to fully break my four cracked pieces and kintsugi them

[antiqueanimals]

Don Balke (b. 1933), Turtle, 1986, gouache on board.

Invaluable

[aberrantologist]

Doodles from yesterday's Flocking Paleostream featuring Bathornis, Quinkana, Acanthostega, and Megaloceros.

[kittyoverlord]

If you want some real messy taxonomy get into arthropods.

CLADISTICS ruined my life

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

So would non avian dinosaurs if alive still, be studied under herpetology or ornithology?? Also isn't ornithology just a type of herpetology since birds are reptiles ?? Sorry this is so stupid idk who else to ask

Well that’s the question right

All these fields were invented before we knew about phylogenetic relationships or even evolution

And they are mammal biased - we grouped amphibians and nonavian reptiles because they were cold blooded, even though turns out mammals and reptiles are equally close to amphibians (ie not that close)

In a world where non-Neornithine dinosaurs persisted, our conception of EVERYTHING would be different

So these groups would have been defined differently to begin with

Like, the right answer is Ornithology… but who knows?

[puppppppppy]

wanna see a magic trick? 🪄🎩

[nemfrog]

A crocodile in Egypt. Peter Parley's Kaleidoscope or Parlor Pleasure Book. 1859.

Internet Archive

[chimeride]

A hydra, but each head has jaws and teeth specialized for different food like a one-creature set of the Galapagos Finches

[todaysbird]

another call for a weird interview!

I’m doing a piece for Modern Farmer on python farming as a proposed solution for more carbon-friendly farming than traditional livestock, and why some people are advocating for pythons as a food source despite the ‘ick’ factor. i’m looking for a range of viewpoints, so I’d love to talk to people who:

have any knowledge about python farming

have worked extensively with pythons in a research setting

have hunted pythons where they are invasive (like the Everglades)

have eaten python/have cooked with it

have pet pythons (I’d love to hear what pros and cons you find in python farming!)

if your experiences are different but you think you could be a good interviewee, please still reach out!

DM me directly with your experience if you’d like to be interviewed. Please contact me by 8/2/2024 to be considered!

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

"Cretaceous Blue Moon," a composite artwork from 2013. A gathering of male Elasmosaurus show off their strength by lifting their heads high out of the water during a bloom of bioluminescent plankton.