@oddpride: I also feel like at a certain point the popular use of “descriptivism” becomes an argument that no statement can ever be false, which strikes me as Not Helpful. 🦕 🪶 🦣 #Science #mindblown #paleontology #dinosaurs #biology
Recently extinct animal which is not a dinosaur: Mammoth
Recently extinct animal which is: Dodo
2026-04-27 21:47:29
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J Byrd 🏳️⚧️ :
dimetrodon isnt even a reptile
2026-04-28 14:12:21
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Jocker01⚛️ :
how about reptiles from the triassic, jurassic and cretaceous periods?
2026-06-25 09:50:13
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ª :
lizard adjacent thing that is extinct=Dinosaur
2026-04-28 01:00:25
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Nuclear_N :
"scientifically incoherent bag of whimsy" is the energy I aspire to give off
2026-04-27 21:59:26
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Jog Home :
Pluto is a dwarf planet. Tomatoes are a fruit. All monkeys have tails. Doves are pretty pigeons. Toads are ugly frogs.
2026-04-27 23:22:54
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Luke :
My definition: if it appears in Jurassic Park, it's a dinosaur.
And yes, that includes 3D file system navigators for Unix.
2026-04-28 12:42:20
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Ruth Smith :
I’ve had people argue with me that insects aren’t animals 😭😂 Like, are they a plant or fungi or a non-living object? No? Well, then, animal 😂
2026-04-27 21:54:26
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Sequoia :
My parents made fun of me for saying that birds are dinosaurs once so every time I go to the field museum (often) I send them this picture
2026-04-28 01:56:50
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BladeKnight r0blivion :
Linguistically, doesnt Dinosaur translate from Latin as 'Terrible Lizard"? I think your average person could assume reptilians (and the like) would be dinosaurs 🤷🏼♂️
2026-04-27 23:14:06
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mcgingerbeard :
“Bag of extinct megafauna”
2026-04-30 02:52:38
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Mike :
dinosaurs should be applied to ancient vaguely lizardy creatures. in this case dimetrodon yes and modern birds no. definitely not mammoth
2026-04-28 17:06:07
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Therianthropicon :
people know it's a clade, right?
the clade dinosauria?
it doesn't mean anything extinct, not just anything extinct and reptilian, but it refers to reptiles within the clade of dinosauria
2026-04-27 22:23:25
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IllyFlower :
'scientifically incoherent bag of whimsy' has been stuck in my head for 2 days now
2026-05-26 19:53:23
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Alex Ross :
one time I made my sister angry. she made dinosaur nuggets and dinosaur waffles for dinner, but she made sure that I only got the pterodactyl ones because, and I quote, "you don't deserve dinosaurs, you deserve prehistoric reptiles."
2026-05-15 19:41:43
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Mindy1965 :
Ooh, I was going to partially agree with linguistic descriptivism depending on the context. Dinosaurs are fine for a general and casual conversation, but then you hit me with a plastic mammoth.
2026-05-03 13:06:52
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Alighieri :
A tube of rubber animals i bought recently for my kid was labeled "insects." It had a spider, scorpion, and centipede, and I thought "I'll give that a pass. Many would call those 'bugs'." But looking further, there was also a rat, a frog, and a bat... No... I guess they're calling all creepy crawlies "insects"?
2026-04-28 23:37:20
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safirephoenix :
Out of the 5 original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers "Dino" Zords, only 2 were actually Dinosaurs.
2026-05-01 03:17:01
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heyimjaytee :
okay the mammoth pissed me off
2026-04-29 20:16:33
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Jen :
I now like you 1% more than I liked you already, and I already liked you a lot
2026-05-06 06:51:05
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Erik :
I can forgive dimetrodon, but mammoth is whack
2026-04-27 22:37:45
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Stecat :
Calling a dimetrodon a dinosaur makes some sense but a mammoth? No.... just no...
2026-04-29 02:28:50
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Haven Cliff :
OK, the mammoth, I understand wholeheartedly not a dinosaur. But that first one which I currently cannot repeat its name I failed to comprehend how it does not. Could you please elaborate or point me in the direction of a video you previously have elaborated?
2026-04-28 03:56:55
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ordinary...ash :
Then there's this guy (Tuatara), who also isn't a dinosaur but lived at the same time as some of them and now exists as the sole remaining survivor of it's whole order.
2026-04-28 14:18:20
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Ryan :
eh to me its like how "bug" is referring scientifically to a specific type of animal but if I was to make a bag of toy "bugs" I wouldnt be surprised if spiders and other arachnids were in there like yup thats a bug
2026-04-28 16:06:00
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