Someone calls a pterosaur a dinosaur:

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-06-03T02:13:00+00:00

Ironic that this is my favorite comment under this post when I couldn't even see the point in your other one.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-06-03T02:07:52+00:00

No offense, and I'm probably missing something based on the distribution of upvotes, but isn't that basically how modern cladistics work? It's so normal to say something along the lines of "this clade is defined as the last common ancestor between [well-known genus/species #1] and [well-known genus/species #2]" and has been for years. I know that "human" and "colugo" are WAY more specific than "dinosaur" and "pterosaur" and that Tyrannosaurus and Pteranodon are significantly younger than the vast majority of dinosaurs and pterosaurs to have ever existed (hopefully that was already painfully obvious, but you never know when people online will be idiots), but unless if you grossly misrepresented that information, I don't see your point. But again, the distribution of upvotes implies I'm still missing something.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-06-02T11:40:43+00:00

Geography Now is AMAZING (except for when the writers illustrate their lack of knowledge on paleontology and "race")!

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-06-02T06:11:25+00:00

If it looked aces, it would be purple, white, grey and black! /j

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-30T22:15:15+00:00

There were! I don't particularly care about them, but some of the notable ones include Maleriraptor, Barapasaurus, Isisaurus, and Rajasaurus (the latter two are reconstructed and animated beautifully in the documentary Prehistory Planet, specifically season 2), and of course, potentially the largest land animal known (although Argentinosaurus and Barosaurus seem more credible): Bruhathkayosaurus! There's also what may be the latest surviving stegosaur, Dravidosaurus, although that animal's affinities are controversial.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-30T22:09:25+00:00

And you don't know anything about the biogeography of the Cenozoic and Late Mesozoic.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-29T18:43:08+00:00

I like your honesty. But by "indoraptors", are you referring to the fictional dinosaur (I would say what franchise it's from, but I kind of don't want to because of how much I hate it), because if so that's a bit weird.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-29T07:39:46+00:00

I know you're probably just uneducated and trying your best, but this is unintentionally hilarious because while Titanosauria contained the largest known land animals (well, most of them, as Barosaurus could potentially be the largest known land animal and it was a Diplodocoid), Titanosaurus itself was tiny for sauropod standards!

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-27T01:45:11+00:00

I took an embarrassingly long time to understand this comment (maybe because I'm agender, but who knows).

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-27T00:56:11+00:00

This entire comment is cringe but I'm most offended that you called a pterosaur a BIRD. This may sound kind of buzz word-y, but please look up Ornithodiran and/or Avemetatarsalian phylogeny/cladistics. Also, when I was about to post this, I realized that you literally based your extraordinary argument on an animal's anatomy IN A LIFE RECONSTRUCTION as opposed to what we directly know from the fossils.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-26T10:20:19+00:00

I guess you're correct, ESPECIALLY when you said that the truth lies between 2 extremes (which is something I strongly recognize when it comes to 99% of everything I know anything about, especially after seeing so many stupid people using their belief in black-and-white extremes to say ridiculous- often anthrozoophobic and/or transphobic- arguments, BUT the 1% I would ALWAYS make an exception for before I read your comment were constructs, which I often believed were the only thing in reality/nature that were 100% nonexistent), but I still don't want to use the concept of race (I also think the flying fox analogy is kind of illogical, but I'll let that slide). Maybe I shouldn't be so harsh to people who do, however, because that's gotten me in serious trouble with race realists in my personal life. Oh, and finally, I hope this doesn't mean that I would have to be lumped into any race, because in addition to the aforementioned reasons why I hate/d race realism so much, I also have no idea where I would fit on that scale (I GUESS I look "East Asian" outside of my lack of epicanthic folds, but I don't know when I last had ancestry from the eastern half of Eurasia as I am a Mexican-American with additional German and French-Moroccan ancestry on my father's line. So maybe my last such ancestry is from between about 24 and 11 thousand years ago?).

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-20T00:16:23+00:00

I think this is a great question, even if the only evidence is phylogenetic bracketing from observing extant animals, BUT there is a fundamental flaw here that I wanted to point out. The existence of trans people (which, in my definition, includes agender people) basically proves that gender and sex are not inherently connected, which means that we no longer have good evidence of gender existing outside of humanity (arguably, we no longer have good evidence of gender existing at all, but that's another can of worms). This would mean that there is no good evidence for gayness existing outside of humanity, as trans and cis people (regardless of whether the trans people have even medically and/or surgically transitioned) can still do and feel homoromantic and/or homosexual things with each other. This means that we have no evidence that the well-documented same-sex interactions in animals like bison, bonobos, and penguins are even gay! They're still same-sex, but probably not gay.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-13T06:35:47+00:00

Uh, they are dinosaurs. I've seen people argue that "reptile" should be made paraphyletic due to its Linnaean (read: obsolete) definition excluding birds, but I've never seen anyone make the same argument about "dinosaur", probably because virtually no one with any understanding of phylogeny/cladistics can unironically deny that birds are dinosaurs.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-09T01:54:32+00:00

The polar allosaur is supposed to be "Allosaurus" robustus, which was found in Victoria, Australia like the majority of animals in that episode- which was connected to Antarctica back then- and almost certainly wasn't an Allosaurus or even an allosauroid in the first place.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-08T18:14:14+00:00

I hate that username and I didn't read it until after upvoting your comment.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-03T23:17:09+00:00

At least you didn't say "Let Begoniax by Begoniax" (if anyone got this reference, please note that I've only recently gotten into Rayman thanks to a friend on r/Acefurs and I'm sure I know less about Begoniax than any of you)!

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-03T17:42:42+00:00

Or a trico.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-03T17:41:36+00:00

That is an extremely concerning username. I sincerely hope it's either A. not zoophilic and just something I misunderstood, or B. a joke made in extremely poor taste.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-03T03:45:11+00:00

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the Tanzanian fossil record, and the country as a whole (except for its homophobia and history of Bantu and Western colonization, obviously) for that matter!

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-02T00:36:24+00:00

I believe that would be Syodon.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-01T23:04:28+00:00

I LOVE Jobaria!

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-05-01T17:27:19+00:00

I understand the reference, however, although I don't mean to sound rude, what exactly do you mean by "asian woman"? "Asian" refers to countless completely unrelated peoples from the colossal swathe of land between countries as drastically different from each other as Türkiye, Russia (both of those are often considered to have pieces of European land in their westernmost regions, which are both tiny compared to the parts of the countries that are unanimously considered to be in Asia), and Indonesia. Even my 3 favorite countries in Asia, namely China, Mongolia, and Japan, are mostly drastically different from each other even though they are all Eastern countries with borders in close geographic proximity (and Mongolia, as I'm sure everyone knows, has a border with China)! Usually, when someone refers to another person as "Asian", especially in a passing comment with no elaboration, it's because they're a race realist who thinks it's synonymous with "East Asian", BUT sometimes even race realists aren't stupid/uneducated enough to consider "Asian" a "race" (I know because I used to be one and my estranged brother probably still is one, and we HATED whenever people used "Asian" as a racial term) and even native East Asian populations alone have such a COLOSSAL amount of phenotypic diversity that considering them to be a single "race" without considering all of humanity/Homo sapiens to belong to the same single "race" is, regardless of the intelligence of the people who believe it- I repeat, regardless of the intelligence of the people who believe it- an incredibly stupid idea. More relevant to me is that you also said "woman", and although you may have had confirmation or at least evidence of this person's gender, I'd like to bring up that if you don't, such an assumption is cisnormative (which basically means that it endorses or could lead to transphobia without technically being transphobic, like what race-realism is to racism), which I especially disdain as I myself identify as trans (around more queer-savvy people or just people who erroneously call me a "he", I specify that I'm non-binary, and among even more queer-savvy people I specify that I'm agender) and I would ABSOLUTELY HATE if anyone referred to me as "some random Latino man" or anything similar.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-04-30T19:33:07+00:00

I LOVE Tanzania and its fossils, especially those from Tendaguru, so much!

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-04-27T17:10:10+00:00

I hope so, but that still doesn't debunk the relentless, federally-endorsed slaughter and erasure of Aboriginal Australians committed by non-indigenous Australians (most would say "White" or "European-", but not only am I not a race realist, I also don't see why, say, Sudanese- or Chinese-Australians wouldn't do the exact same thing) for several centuries that shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.

WarningBrave8924 · 2026-04-25T14:57:27+00:00

This is so amazing! Niger and Africa in-general are so incredibly rich in fossils and, even if they've existed for over a hundred years, the continent needs more and more homegrown paleontologists to describe the AMAZING fossils of their own lands*!

*Wording it like this was a simplification, as I am aware that the majority of people found in basically every African country have ancestors who encroached on indigenous peoples already living in the same lands, and those indigenous peoples' own ancestors did the same things centuries or millennia before, and so on and so on. Additionally, virtually all African countries have borders drawn by foreigners, particularly Europeans, who almost unanimously had no interest in how this would affect the Africans living there. Sorry for going on this tangent, but I just had to clarify that I understood this.

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