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[–] TheDoozer 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How is it that we discover bones of a large flying creature, and first thought is "it looks mammalian, like a flying possum!" And then "nah, that's ridiculous. It was a flying reptile! Like a DRAGON!"

Large flying creature, and nobody thinks giant bird? Really?

[–] SkyezOpen 27 points 1 month ago

We already have birds. Give us flying possums or dragons.

[–] marcos 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apparently they were way more similar to bats than to birds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

the wings were in structure, yes, but i don't think basically anything else is even remotely similar to bats, maybe the fact that they were fuzzy but like.. baby birds are fuzzy too a lot of the time