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xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

Title text:

Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3204/

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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 9 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

TIL dimetrodon is not a dinosaur, based on a silhouette in a cartoon.

I haven't really thought about dimetrodons since I was a kid.

[–] ccunix@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

What is funny is that you probably struggled to say words like "shoulder", but "dimetrodon" posed no problem to you.

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