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dinosaurnews · 11 months

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Sorry, PETA, I would 100% eat a T-Rex.

#dinosaurs #dinosaur #paleontology #clever girl #birds are dinosaurs #non-avian dinosaurs #avian dinosaurs #tastes like chicken

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a-dinosaur-a-day · 8 months

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What's most amazing about people who hate that birds are dinosaurs is that, without the discovery of birds being dinosaurs in the 1960s, none of y'all would have ever actually cared about dinosaurs

the history:

dino craze in 1800s. people thought, birds are very similar to these guys. Dollo fucked it up, made a bad theory, and people stopped thinking that

Early 1900s, dinosaurs deemed sluggish, stupid, pointless evolutionary failures. most people not really into dinosaurs anymore. this continues until

1960s: Deinonychus discovered. suddenly, dinosaurs interesting again: vibrant, lively, warm blooded animals. Also... birds might be dinosaurs?

from the 60s through the 70s, a slow buildup of dinosaur culture - both in crappy stop motion movies, but also in children's books and other media

80s cladistics revolution shows birds are living dinosaurs, though not without flaws. documentary after documentary is made, causing the major dinosaur boom of the late 80s and early 90s

the peak of this boom are the A&E and PBS documentaries, which both outright state birds are dinosaurs

cartoons like land before time and other dinosaur content keep coming out too, especially at the end of the 80s and the earliest 90s

the book jurassic park, referencing the birds are dinosaurs thing, is written in the late 80s. in the early 90s, is adapted into one of the greatest blockbusters of all time. now dinosaur interest is MAINSTREAM.

jurassic park isn't the start of the dinosaur boom, it is the apex

90s becomes the decade of dinosaurs, with tons of new discoveries, television shows, documentaries, and other programming

1996 first feathered "nonavian" dinosaur discovered. birds are dinosaurs is the closest thing we have to proven phylogenetic fact

1999 walking with dinosaurs premieres, revolutionizing the dinosaur-documentary genre.

early 2000s becomes the age of Period-Type Dino-Docu-Dramas

velociraptor is determined to have feathers

suddenly, dinosaur mania starts to die in the later 2000s

even though discoveries keep happening and we learn so much in the 2010s, the 2010s becomes a very regressive time - a sort of reactionary response to the birdification of dinosaurs and the dinosaurification of birds. the height of this is jurassic world

we may be in the middle of a dino-docu-drama revitilization thanks to prehistoric planet. stay tuned on that one

like, everyone was fine with the birdification of dinosaurs up and until they looked "feminine" on the outside, because of feathers.

It's just all such transparent misogyny and homophobia and people who react against feathered dinosaurs or birds being dinosaurs are just... so transparently parroting conservative talking points

Anyways, yeah. without birds are dinosaurs, you wouldn't have jurassic park. Sooooo

#I don't know why I keep talking about this #I'm procrastinating my museum collection conservation assignment tbh #birds are dinosaurs #feathered dinosaurs #jurassic park

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prettyhighforawhiteguyblog · 3 months

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#ph4wg #birds are dinosaurs #chickens

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transgabalus · 4 months

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#pigeon #birbs of tumblr #best birbs #meme #shitpost #196 #ruleposting #dinosaur #birds are dinosaurs

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fabrizio-art · 9 months

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Death Stare- Dino Doodles

I think crow-like beady eyes on dinosaurs are criminally underused.

Also hooded crows are underappreciated.

This was supposed to be a "scary feathered dinosaurs" piece but turned out cute.

#dinosaurs #digital art #artists on tumblr #paleoart #my art #birds are dinosaurs #birdlike #non-avian dinosaurs #feathered dinosaurs #feathers #creepy #not really #crows #speaking of Hooded Crows play Death's Door #dinosaur art

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dinofloof · 8 months

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One of these is a dinosaur and one is a bird. As you can see, they are clearly soooo radically different from each other that there cannot possibly be any overlap between these two groups. Drawing a line between dinosaurs and birds is easy! You just have to, uh, ummm, uhhh....... quick, what's that! [disappears in a puff of smoke]

#birds are dinosaurs #paravians

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beepsnivy · 8 months

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Shoutout to my geology professor from summer 2022 who said dinosaurs were “beautiful animals.” I love when dinosaurs are talked about that way. Dinosaurs are beautiful. Cenozoic animals are seen as cute so why not extinct dinosaurs???

Also birds are cute and birds are dinosaurs so that pretty much confirms that dinosaur = cute

#dinosaurs #paleontology #birds #animals #kittee talks #birds are dinosaurs

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dedicatedfollower467 · 4 months

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prehistoric planet 2: a primitive relative of ducks gather here me: well i mean the more accurate term is "basal" but okay prehistoric planet 2: but something else is here as well. prehistoric planet 2: dinosaurs me: .... ducks.... ARE dinosaurs..... mr attenborough sir ducks are dinosaurs birds are dinosaurs i know you mean non-avian dinosaurs but bro. c'mon.

#dinosaurs #prehistoric planet #prehistoric planet 2 #dinosaur #birds are dinosaurs

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greencheekconure27 · 5 months

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Hot take

#i like my dragons sentient and we already have highly intelligent flying dinosaurs Right There 🦜🐦‍⬛#can you imagine how terrifying a bored lovebird the size of an elephant would be ?#that's not to say i don't enjoy dragons with cat-like traits i just think there's a missed opportunity #dragons #birds are dinosaurs #parrots #corvids #birblr #fantasy #here be dragons

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drawingwithdinosaurs · 8 months

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I think the whole "birds are dinosaurs" bit has been thoroughly covered this past couple weeks, but I have one thought to contribute, and that is if you really think about it, the alternative would be much, much, worse to deal with.

Like, can you imagine what the world would be like if scientists just threw their hands up and let birds be kept separate from "dinosaurs"?

The fact that birds are evolutionary nested within "dinosaurs" would still exist, of course, so scientists would have to come up with another name for that clade! That would be the name scientists use over "dinosaurs" most of the time, and I guarantee you it would be nowhere near as memorable, catchy, or punchy.

That would be sci-comm disaster.

Can you imagine how confusing that would end up being? Any literature remotely scientific would start using the new name over "dinosaurs". People would have to learn two words for what would basically the same thing!

Books, websites, and tv shows about dinosaurs would have to constantly explain the definitions of both "dinosaurs" and the new scientific name and why they're supposed to be different. People get confused enough over Saurischia and Ornithischia already, imagine this on top of it!

People complain that it's supposedly being pedantic and all "um actually" to state (the blunt fact) that birds are dinosaurs. Can you imagine the pedantry potential if we had two terms for effectively the same concept to split hairs over? Like when is it correct to use the new scientific name and when you should use "dinosaurs"?

Especially after people have been used to just saying "dinosaurs" for almost two centuries. The new scientific name would take a while to catch on, and many people would just keep using "dinosaurs" for the clade anyway. Imagine the amount of pedantic correcting that would be going on there.

And to top it off, it's not as if this would stop people from saying "birds are dinosaurs" anyway, the same way people say "we are all fish". Except now it would be layered on top of a slew of discourse surrounding the word "dinosaur" and whatever new scientific name was given to the clade.

That would be an objectively worse and more frustrating reality to deal with.

Birds being dinosaurs is the simpler concept, more congruent with describing the reality, frankly easier to explain, and just all around less confusing than the mess that would exist in this other reality where people refused to let birds be called "dinosaurs".

#birds are dinosaurs

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dinosaurnews · 10 months

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Obsessed with this spinosaurus! 🤣😂🤣

#dinosaurs #dinosaur #paleontology #prehistoric #paleo art #birds are dinosaurs #science #spinosaurus aegyptiacus #spinosaurus

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a-dinosaur-a-day · 8 months

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New Fear

I have been on tumblr a long time. A looooong time. Far longer than I should have been, really.

And I've been arguing with schmucks about birds being dinosaurs... pretty much that whole time. Folks tend to get angry when a dinosaur blog posts birds, after all. It happens.

And while the game of whack a mole is ancient, it's not unpredictable. Usually, it ends in one of two ways:

the person admits they were wrong, and they back down

the person stops arguing with me and blocks me

I'm okay with either one, really. the former is ideal, the latter at least brings me peace.

Never before this past weekend has someone insisted they were right no matter what I say

And this isn't a coincidence.

Over the past few decades, anti-science sentiment has risen worldwide. I mean you just have to look at the COVID19 pandemic, or general reactions to the problems of climate change.

While of course people who think their opinion matters more than evidence have always existed, they have never been quite this bold before.

The idea that the colloquial definition of dinosaur matters, at all, is a completely new idea and one that has no basis in reality.

And yet, multiple people this past weekend argued exactly that.

And it sounds exceptionally similar to the idea that people could pick and choose things about COVID19 to believe, or the general republican position on science (only things that back up their bigotry are true).

It really seems to reflect a general increase in anti science sentiment and public anti-intellectualism.

Reality isn't actually up for debate. Reality isn't actually subjective. And science is the measure of reality

This isn't the same as the biases of society impacting science and making it worse. Saying "what people think is more important than science" is not the same as saying "science forgot a very important variable / factor / to consider data gained by different cultures / to have a wide variety of perspectives/ etc."

And allowing people to continue to perpetuate and believe in delusions leads directly to the spread of misinformation, leading to more people not understanding reality, and so on

This matters because reality matters. Because the reality of our world is not something we can change or escape. And, in fact, us ignoring the reality of the world - like thinking we can have infinite growth on a finite planet - is directly leading to the destruction of that world (climate change).

I am terrified of the rise of anti-science sentiment. I am terrified of the rise of cherry picking, deciding reality is what you want it to be, ignoring evidence. We see this from purely scientific topics all the way to social justice (how much of racism is ignoring the evidence of a) race being a social construct and b) how much racism impacts people's lives? Almost all of it).

This is bigger than birds being dinosaurs or evolution or climate change. This is about our society going on a deeply disturbing and self-destructive path.

And I really don't know what to do about it.

#birds are dinosaurs #whack a mole #science isn't subjective #climate change #covid19

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deafeningpeanutanchor · 10 months

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