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Fossils on Fossils (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This meme made me gasp loud enough that my girlfriend was worried something was wrong.

Then I had to explain that I'm 41 years old and was just shocked by a dinosaur fact.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Forty-one?! You're practically a fossil!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

Also, my favourite fact is we know almost nothing about dinosaurs from jungles and mountains. Most of our knowledge comes from wetland and oceanic creatures because of the way fossils are formed.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

To be fair, things can fossilise very quickly given ideal conditions. Still dinosaurs reigned for a lot more time than mammals and frankly nature is still feeling the loss in certain ways.

https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Another fun fact (dino facts are the best facts): There are more "dinosaur" species alive today than there are mammal species.
11,000 bird species alive today (approx)
6,000 mammal species alive today (approx)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And their all bats.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Who is “they” and why do they have “all bats”? Also, what’s an all bat?

On a more serious note, I didn’t know most bird species were bats. That’s wild.