A Mysterious Crater’s Age May Add Clues to the Dinosaur Extinction
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#3I dislike that these articles always refer to the dinosaurs and their “extinction” or “demise” or similar terms. The clade of dinosaurs is not extinct. Birds are dinosaurs. People need to know this.
They should just talk about the extinction of the pterosaurs instead. Not only would it be accurate, it would also implicitly teach that not everything alive then was a dinosaur, including the famous pterodactyl.
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#4"Boltysh crater lies south of the Dnieper river’s right bank."
Here's a photo covering several thousand square kilometers and a river with a dozen different branches. The river runs generally north to south. Where's Waldo?
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#5I dislike that these articles always refer to the dinosaurs and their “extinction” or “demise” or similar terms. The clade of dinosaurs is not extinct. Birds are dinosaurs. People need to know this. They should just talk about the extinction of the pterosaurs instead. Not only would it be accurate, it would also implicitly teach that not everything alive then was a dinosaur, including the famous pterodactyl.
I think most people who care know that birds are dinosaurs. What purpose does being pedantic serve? Is there a single word term that more effectively describes all the large fauna that went extinct as a result of the Chicxulub impact (without delving into further pedantry around that)?
Words are a convenient shortcut and most people know what's meant by "dinosaurs".
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#6I dislike that these articles always refer to the dinosaurs and their “extinction” or “demise” or similar terms. The clade of dinosaurs is not extinct. Birds are dinosaurs. People need to know this. They should just talk about the extinction of the pterosaurs instead. Not only would it be accurate, it would also implicitly teach that not everything alive then was a dinosaur, including the famous pterodactyl.
People already know that, what are you talking about
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#7I dislike that these articles always refer to the dinosaurs and their “extinction” or “demise” or similar terms. The clade of dinosaurs is not extinct. Birds are dinosaurs. People need to know this. They should just talk about the extinction of the pterosaurs instead. Not only would it be accurate, it would also implicitly teach that not everything alive then was a dinosaur, including the famous pterodactyl.
I think most people who care know that birds are dinosaurs. What purpose does being pedantic serve? Is there a single word term that more effectively describes all the large fauna that went extinct as a result of the Chicxulub impact (without delving into further pedantry around that)? Words are a convenient shortcut and most people know what's meant by "dinosaurs".
Because the complete truth matters.
When I was younger, I thought that pretty much all of the developed creatures died at that point and that the whole evolution from single-celled to multicellular creatures got reset and restarted. Which of course isn't true.
I think we should always try to be as accurate as we can, because facts already get distorted my time, thus there no need to distort them before they even meet time.
I believe truth and accuracy is important. But because many many people don't, we now have a saying: "History is written by the victors." Meaning history is distorted.
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#8"Boltysh crater lies south of the Dnieper river’s right bank." Here's a photo covering several thousand square kilometers and a river with a dozen different branches. The river runs generally north to south. Where's Waldo?
Waldo's buried :(
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.75,32.166667&q=48.75,32.1...
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#9Can't read it due to nag screen, next please.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think most people who care know that birds are dinosaurs. What purpose does being pedantic serve? Is there a single word term that more effectively describes all the large fauna that went extinct as a result of the Chicxulub impact (without delving into further pedantry around that)? Words are a convenient shortcut and most people know what's meant by "dinosaurs".
Because the complete truth matters. When I was younger, I thought that pretty much all of the developed creatures died at that point and that the whole evolution from single-celled to multicellular creatures got reset and restarted. Which of course isn't true. I think we should always try to be as accurate as we can, because facts already get distorted my time, thus there no need to distort them before they even meet…
I've never seen a resource about the extinction that didn't also mention some species surviving, including children's books.