Ostrich the Flightless Bird - African Wildlife Documentary Film with Narration

[onlinebiker]

Probably.  I can't say for certain as Winter has the distinction of being the first person I've ever put on ignore.

Boru

I have a dozen people on ignore but some aren't around any more.  I still click on a few of them to see if they have pulled their heads out their butts and can be taken off the naughty list but that usually doesn't happen.

I only have two.

One I occasionally peek as well...

Sadly - there's never any improvement..

[WinterHold]

*A unique type of bird
To me it's one of the last resentments of dinosaurs.

Uh, Why ostrich in particular?  every bird is By taxonomic definition a dinosaur of the theropod branch of dinosaur family tree.

All birds share features with dinosaurs TBH, but ostriches in particular are more similar in terms of appearance

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Science is SO unfair. Birds are dinosaurs’ closest living relatives and look nothing like dinosaurs, while this little guy 

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has clearly taken all the right evolutionary steps to at least look like a dinosaur, but isn’t. Sad.

Boru

No, the classification is not about physical appearance only, there are so many other internal things used to classify.
Moreover even we humans are said to evolved from reptiles btw.

Here:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/nak...study-says

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Is this leading up to Winter calling Boru an ostrich again?

Winter do you have an ostrich fetish?

No, I already did that and said it to him in the face..
The thing is; we have a saying in Arabic:

اسد علي وفي الحروب نعامة
Lion on me but in warfare an ostrich

Boru is just like that..He uses his mod powers against me, and that's quite an ostrich.
But this topic is about the interesting bird. And my head is stuck in this article:

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/sauri...midae.html

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....Evolution has to be true
Just wow.....

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You said "X isn't Z". I said "Y".

Well, you said Z-prime actually.  All dinos were reptiles, but not all reptiles are dinos.

Boru

Dinos are no longer reptiles. They were warm blooded and feathered, characteristics no reptile should have. Or you can say dinos and mammals are reptiles. That would be fun to watch.

[The Grand Nudger]

Gotta watch out for those mod powers.

[Anomalocaris]

Reptiles have legs extending from their sides. Dinosaurs have legs under their torso. The above is reptile.

Not all animals that have traditionally considered to be members of the reptiles class Under Linnean classicifcatkom have legs extending out from their sides.  There were many extinct groups traditionally considered reptiles,  besides the dinosaurs, that also had legs Partially or entirely under their bodies.   Living Crocodiles actually walk and run with their legs partially under their bodies, about half way between a lizard and a cow.

Reptile as most people use the term is based on a Linnean classification derived from superficial comparative anatomy.   Modern genetic and cladistic analysis suggest there is Actually no sensible grouping based on genetic relationship and descent that corresponds to traditional reptile group.    Usually the extinct “mammal like reptile” group has to be expelled form the reptile group, while birds brought under the umbrella of “reptiles” to make it conform to modern ideas of what makes a sensible grouping. 

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Well, you said Z-prime actually.  All dinos were reptiles, but not all reptiles are dinos.

Boru

Dinos are no longer reptiles. They were warm blooded and feathered, characteristics no reptile should have. Or you can say dinos and mammals are reptiles. That would be fun to watch.

Warm bloodedness have been shown to be a poor way to organize animals because it evolves easily and are lost easily amongst many different groups of animals.   For example, many pelagic fish and some sharks are warm blooded.  Some mammals have little ability maintain a constant body temperature and are for all practical purposes not warm blooded.   

Feathers are just mutated scales.   Many, if not most, reptiles have horny skin scales somewhere on their bodies.  Birds still have lizard like scales on their legs and feet.