• technologicalcaveman@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I always like pterodactyls, specifically the classic big lizard ones. I do have a tiny Dimetrodon in my pc case though that I got out of a crane machine.

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      Pterodactyls aren’t dinosaurs, FYI: they’re pterosaurs. It doesn’t matter in the least, but I have a 5-year-old so I’m learning a lot about prehistoric reptiles.

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          There’s two big groups of four-limbed vertebrates: amphibians (like frogs), and amniotes (like us and birds). Amniotes developed into two groups: synapsids (mammals) and saurapsids (lizards, birds, turtles, etc.).

          Dimetrodon was a synapsid that ruled the world tens of millions of years before the first dinosaurs evolved.

          That makes it really cool, actually, precisely because it isn’t a dinosaur. Dimetrodon is to us as brotosaurus is to chickens: a really interesting great great etc uncle.

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      That moment when someone mentions something and it brings back old memories. I had a big pterodactyl as a kid, sold as a plastic model kit to assemble. Had it hanging from the ceiling for years, and had long forgotten it.

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      Pterodactyls are terrifying. Good choice!