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#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/

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[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Two pterosauri ("fyling dinosaurs"), plesiosaurus, dimetrodon, and I don't know the name of that other swimming dino, maybe mosasaurus.

[-] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Flying dinosaurs, swimming dinosaurs, but not dinosaurs?

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

That's why I put the quotation marks ;)

[-] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 4 days ago

They're "fyling" dinosaurs. I think that means that the dinosaurs would eat them but...

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