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submitted 7 months ago by starlord@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Chicken?

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why evolve more when they've already figured it all out?

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

To fly maybe. Not sure, it just seems biologically conservative when every other surviving dinosaur became birds, fish, and mammals.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Thank God crocodiles didn't learn to fly.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Why are you pretending that dragons don't exist?

[–] colorlessness@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nah that would be tight, bring on our flying crocodile overlords

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

We'd salute them with a "crikey!"

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

🎶 Alligator-lizards in the aaaaairrr, in the aaaaaaaaaaaaaaairrr 🎶

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Fish existed first, reptiles evolved from fish. Mammals evolved from reptiles alongside dinosaurs who also evolved from reptiles.

The only dinosaurs that survived the mass extinction 65 million years ago were birds.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Evolution isn't always a forward process. Hence how we have cetaceans and why crabs evolved into existence five separate times.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't have anything to do with the timeline of fish > reptiles > dinosaur evolution.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

That's what I mean by a "forward process". Often people think evolution always goes that one way you describe.

[–] Shialac@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

A lot of dinosaurs died out, crocodiles are still around.

Checkmate evolution