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[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago

That also means Archaeopteryx has a middle finger.

A bird that can flip you the bird.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 10 months ago

Wouldn't it flip you the human instead?

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago

Humans hadn't been invented yet. Best it could do is flip you the mammal.

[-] akincisor@sh.itjust.works 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's high time we replaced Philosoraptor with Sarcastiopteryx.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

Y por qué no los dos?

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Sarcastiopteryx

beautiful ... we can add that to the prehistoric collection along with .... AnxietyRex

AnxietyRex

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago

A Socratic dialog in which the philosopher offers good questions to which the bird has only flippant rejoinders.

[-] kewwwi@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

bawk baawk /s

[-] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 7 points 10 months ago

Archeo means old, pter means wing, is yx just a suffix or does it mean something in itself?

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

The -yx comes from the Greek word "onyx" which means claw or talon. So, anything ending in a -yx is designated that way to say that it has sharp cutty bits that will hurt you.

[-] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago

My dog is Tony!

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Archaeopteryx answering you with air quotes .... "yx"

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Fun bio fact: there's also an extinct plant named Archaeopteris, thought for some time to be the world's first tree.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

And it got the worm because it was an early bird

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Hadn't learned to walk without rhythm yet.

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