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Hooray, it's real, that's going straight to !nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk
I was literally just wondering if there was a nominative determinism community
And an aptly named one, too!
Italian name. Grande means big, -oni is suffix for big (plural) so this guy is Biggy big Dino
So probably a t-rex
isn't there a political italjan figure named Dino Grande by coincidence?
This is like The Washington Post (owned by Bezos) with articles about how billionaires shouldn't be taxed
Seeing as their closest living relative is the Chicken, not all that smart.
Ravens are equally close relatives, as are parrots.
Would your kids survive an extinction event?
It's just a joke, I believe animals are far more intelligent than dumbasses give them credit for.
And we will find out the answer to your question, what time is it? Oh shit, got to go.
Clearly a chickenless Lemm, they smarter than many people.
I thought komodo dragons were descended from them?
T. Rex and the other dinosaurs shaped like it (the theropods) are the ancestors of birds
They could be ancestors of a lot of things!
Nice try, Fellow human...
Big Dino doesn't want you to know where its funding goes