• PillBugTheGreat@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I kinda got into dinosaurs as a kid. Today, there are so many different collections of dinosaurs in various encyclopedias. My favorite from the new books is Micropachycephalosauarus. Just the idea that a little dino, like tini little guy, was running around headbutting things cracks me up.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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      I hope it brings you joy to know that “dinosaur” kids are still memorizing these ever-growing lists. I work with kids, and the big dinosaur fan is still teaching me new dino things almost every day. We recently learned of a dinosaur that is basically another student’s name +saurus. That was a cute discovery.

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    Do you think Jeff Bezos will push his Prime studio to make Homelander a hero now that he’s an ultra right wing supporter?

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      He’s already the hero for the idiots. No need to change anything, it’s already the perfect allegory - just that they’re rooting for the villain.

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      Oh my favourite has always been Plesiosaur’s, also did you know the tuatara is the last living dinasaur.

      /s

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    He looks like a Compsognathus kinda guy.

    (For the non-dino nerds Compsognathus means “pretty jaw”.)

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    Would have been slightly funnier and nerdier with the Dimetrodon IMHO.

  • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
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    Is there a good reason why dinosaur is only terrestrial extinct reptiles (and a subset at that)?

    Do we have a handy term that includes plesiasaur, pteradons and dactyls, as well as dinosaurs?