Friends Cut thing

[innerbrat]

I usually announce here when I do one of those general sweeping cuts of my friendslist, partly to create a space where people can discuss that cut - though obviously people rarely do, but mostly as a open Dear John letter, that generally means 'It's not you, it's me'; 400 total blogs,.including journals communities and outside feeds is a lot, and I

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[timjr]

*raises hand*

So what are flying dinosaurs called? I'm actually genuinely interested to know.

(Also, I watched the first ep of Being Human last night, on your recommendation. Cheers. That was good.)

[e_mily]

Well the issue is that there AREN'T any flying dinosaurs.

Pterosaurs/"pterodactyls" were the flying lizards in the order Pterosauria, which actually isn't part of Dinosaura at all. Dinosaura are specifically land reptiles.

On that same note, Dimetrodons, icthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs, and those giant-ass Mosasaurs, are also not dinosaurs.

It just takes a little kid who's REALLY into prehistoric animals to learn and remember the difference. [edit] Okay that sounded not how I wanted it to. Those creatures were around, y'know, liberally sprinkled throughout the time of the dinosaurs. And kids into prehistoric animals don't really care what specific order it's from, unless they really REALLY want to know, so most books just toss the other reptiles in and don't bother to make not that they're not actually dinosaurs.

[timjr]

Dude, see, those are totally understandable concepts. And cool. And yet, I never learned that in school.

Man, public schooling is sad, sometimes.

(Also, thanks for taking the time to explain! Cheers.)

[innerbrat]

BIRDS.

- I wish I had the sparkly text preprogrammed into my insets.

[strange_selkie]

Birds' ancestors were microraptors!!!1!

Sorry for making light, and please let us know if we can do anything practical to help.

[not_from_stars]

*snugs* Sorry you're having a rough time of it. hun.

[mycroftca]

Do what you have to do; I can understand limited time...

[jawalter]

If this is your way of telling me that you have no interest in reading my journal entry about how dinosaurs are actually monkeys in disguise (monkeys from space, no less) and I should know, cause I once walked past a bookstore selling a book that had a dinosaur on the cover ... well, message received.

Although, demonstrably, I am right about this.

[innerbrat]

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