#xkcd No. 3204

Date: 2026-2-6

Title: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

Alt text: Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.

https://xkcd.com/3204/

  • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Yes. Also humans are chimps, dogs are wolves and wheat and most citrus fruits don’t even exist.

    Or we could accept that the whole idea of a purely genetic phylogeny with each clade bifurcating into two and later bifurcations always having to be grouped together with no regard for ecological pressures or mutation rates or hybridisation as the unhinged ravings of a geneticist (derogative) who has never touched grass, and move on.