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It would however help to not perpetuate the misconceptions that all dinosaurs were killed at the end of the Cretaceous.
by madmountaingoat 2y ago
It would however help to not perpetuate the misconceptions that all dinosaurs were killed at the end of the Cretaceous.
- lazide 2y agoWould it? Because all the Terrible Lizards (or what anyone could reasonably call something one) DID go extinct then. [https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/when-did-dinosaurs-become-extinct https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/when-did-dinosaurs-become-extinct]. Honestly, I think it’s just paleontologists sticking to the Dinosaur name because it gets them funding. ‘Doing a dig for dinosaur bones’, or being a ‘Dinosaur specialist’ is a lot more sellable than ‘expert in late Cretaceous avian precursors’, or digging for ‘bird precursor fossils’. Which is what non ‘terrible lizard’ dinosaur studies are about. Egyptology has a similar problem. Everyone wants to be known as someone who studies the pyramids, because being the dude that digs in the middens near a random Mastaba for a pharaoah nobody ever heard in the middle of desert that no tourist will ever want to visit is a lot harder to sell, even if it is better actual archeology.