CarrieVS wrote:Pterosaurs aren't actually dinosaurs. Just reptiles that lived around the same time as them.
Are pterosaurs reptiles?
CarrieVS wrote:Pterosaurs aren't actually dinosaurs. Just reptiles that lived around the same time as them.
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
aviel wrote:Are pterosaurs reptiles?
Marcuse wrote:pterosaur, dinosaur
The clue's in the name.
A Combustible Lemon wrote:Death is an archaic concept for simpleminded commonfolk, not Victorian scientist whales.
A Combustible Lemon wrote:Death is an archaic concept for simpleminded commonfolk, not Victorian scientist whales.
Pterosaurs are often referred to in the popular media and by the general public as flying dinosaurs, but this is incorrect. The term "dinosaur" is restricted to just those reptiles descended from the last common ancestor of the groups Saurischia and Ornithischia (clade Dinosauria, which includes birds), and current scientific consensus is that this group excludes the pterosaurs, as well as the various groups of extinct marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs.[6] Pterosaurs are also incorrectly referred to as pterodactyls, particularly by journalists.[7] "Pterodactyl" refers specifically to members of the genus Pterodactylus,[8] and more broadly to members of the suborder Pterodactyloidea.[9][10]
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
D-LOGAN wrote:Where will your precious Classifications be when the universe is nothing but an empty swirling void of endless darkness?
Terry Pratchett wrote:The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
D-LOGAN wrote:You tell 'em Ms.V. In fairness though at least pterosaurs were reptiles, I could give Zordo' a pass on that one, BUT MASTODONS AND SABRE-TOOTH TIGERS! Pffft, Rita repulsa was the real hero of that series!
*Indignant hrmmmph and arm-crossing*
aviel wrote:When all is void and darkness, when the stars have long since exhausted themselves, when the universe is cold and blank, when the most fundamental particles have decayed, and when the very fabric of existence has been stretched into oblivion, there shall be but one taxon: Nullus Nullus.
A Combustible Lemon wrote:Death is an archaic concept for simpleminded commonfolk, not Victorian scientist whales.
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