Chicken?

    • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

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

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        7 months ago

        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.

        • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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          7 months ago

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

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            7 months ago

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

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              7 months ago

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