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Fossils on Fossils (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

To be fair, things can fossilise very quickly given ideal conditions. Still dinosaurs reigned for a lot more time than mammals and frankly nature is still feeling the loss in certain ways.

https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Another fun fact (dino facts are the best facts): There are more "dinosaur" species alive today than there are mammal species.
11,000 bird species alive today (approx)
6,000 mammal species alive today (approx)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And their all bats.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Who is “they” and why do they have “all bats”? Also, what’s an all bat?

On a more serious note, I didn’t know most bird species were bats. That’s wild.