How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds"
When I was a kid, I learned about Dinosaur being "giant lizard", and it's been may-be 10 years, that I hear "Birds are dinosaurs".
I am curious on how the concept evolve, both among paleontologists, and among the general public.
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*over 100s of Millions, but what's an extra zero amongst Internet friends
Ugh, life took ages to get started. Lazy bacteria!
It's still a hell of a long time if you consider that the entirety of recorded (ish) history is only a few thousand years long.
Updated comment to remove an order of magnitude.
Approximately four and a half billion years ago, some rocks and shit became friends and hugged each other so tight that they created the earth.
After a few hundreds of millions of years, life appeared on earth.
Then, four-ish billion years later, Nyasasaurus was like, "roar y'all."
And now there are birds. They're like, "caw y'all," and we're all like, "yo, that's a bird." Then the lizards are like, "me too bro."
The end.