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Yeah, that's right. I'm posting pterosaurs on the commie instance. What are you going to do about it?

Anyway, giant pterosaurs are cool. They're also kind of terrifying. Nature is weird.

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[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

actually "What is more bird-like" is more a linguistic question than a paleontological one!
How "birdlike" something is does not necesarilly boil down to genetics, but rather if it has qualities in common with birds.

In this case it could be pretty reasonably argued that this big kitty is more "birdlike" than a T-rex, despite genetic makeup saying otherwise, since this big dork looks more like a bird than most depictions of T-rexes do.