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  • lugal@sopuli.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzGerman Dinosaurs
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    8 days ago

    I understand quite well how monophyletic clades work and I hope you understand that they are a human construct. That doesn’t mean they are wrong or bad or something, but the question you are ignoring is: Who decides what the stem dinosaur is and would the decision be the same if they know about pterosaurs? Maybe but maybe not. Now that decision is made and set in stone, there is no going back but “dinosaur” and “ornithodiran” are just words that would be swopped (again, not gonna happen anymore)












  • It’s /gəˈhɔʊrɪ/ in the title. I personally read it as /'gɔʊti/ but it’s part of the joke that there is no right pronunciation. [t]>[r] between vowels is common in American English. It’s not the “English R” but kind of the Spanish or Italian one.

    I didn’t read the context so this might be old news, but you can even read it as nothing since all the letters can be silent (as much as they can be fish)