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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can think of a few.

That T-Rex' vision wasn't actually based on movement. (Probably)
Feathered dinosaurs are a thing.
What we were taught as the 'reservation' system more closely resembled concentration camps, and indigenous people were given a 'choice' between death marches and war.
That the US military was actually on the wrong side of nearly every civilian movement for greater rights, from suffrage, to labor, and now freedom of speech and immigration.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

Feathered dinosaurs are a thing.

Well, in fairness, kind of.

[-] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

“In some paleoartistic reconstructions, you will see furry T. rex,” says Tseng. “We think it’s likely that at least at one point in their lives, they probably had bodies that were partially or completely covered in feathers. … Maybe they were more like modern birds, which are among the most extravagant animals.”

~ Jack Tseng, a UC Berkeley vertebrate paleontologist and functional morphologist

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

If I'm remembering correctly vision is movement based, but animals have lots of ways to deal with it. Humans and other species that can move their eyeballs just like vibrate their eyes. But birds like chickens rely more on head bob I think. Couldn't tell you what kind of muscles a tyranasaur has in its eyes.

Also being wrong on the Internet is the best way to find the right answer. So tell me how I'm wrong.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I could be wrong, and if I am, it's just an opportunity to learn a new thing. I put what I've read elsewhere in the thread.

Have a great day.

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A bit curious here. How they did prove at first that T-Rex' vision was based in movement and then how they did prove that doesn't?

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Not sure it's provable, really, but the idea for T-Rex having movement-based vision is (if I'm remembering correctly, forgive me as it's been a while) something that came from the Jurassic Park story, and more specifically how frog vision works, since they used frog DNA to birth their dinosaurs.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's also on the wrong side of mostly if not all left leaning democracies. It prefers dictators over center democracies, and will send CIA dogs after any country that starts drifting left.

[-] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Or just train their fascists opponents at the School of the Americas. Then kablammo, we help overthrow a democracy AND create an enemy justifying more military action in the region.