• TheDoozer@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    How is it that we discover bones of a large flying creature, and first thought is “it looks mammalian, like a flying possum!” And then “nah, that’s ridiculous. It was a flying reptile! Like a DRAGON!”

    Large flying creature, and nobody thinks giant bird? Really?

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 day ago

        the wings were in structure, yes, but i don’t think basically anything else is even remotely similar to bats, maybe the fact that they were fuzzy but like… baby birds are fuzzy too a lot of the time