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Wrong Answers Only - 013 - HD

🕑 Added 2021-03-10 00:25:59 +0000 UTC

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John Trauger

IIRC, current theory has them as sea-going reptiles (cold-blooded) rather than dinosaurs (warm-blooded)

Latency

There's more truth to this than you might know. The word Dinosaur is only a little bit over a century old, previous to that, it was not uncommon for anyone who came across fossils and dinosaurs bones to label them as dragons.

Mark

So why aren't plesiosaurs dinosaurs either?

Ed Abrams (aka The Superdak)

Unlike the pterodactyls and other pterosaurs (which were, in fact, NOT dinosaurs) which could run but could not hide.

Opus the Poet

Dragons turn invisible when endangered, so we never see them. They're still there.

Dan Shive

What do you mean?

Treant Balewood

the png tho

Foradain

And it turns out that the hind limbs are as useless as the forelimbs. ^_^

Stephen Gilberg

Yes, I remember.

Dan Shive

Apologies for bringing up Dilbert, but that is literally Dilbert canon.

Changer

They're just hiding. It's a well known fact that dinosaurs have extremely high stealth checks. They've been around all along, we just don't notice them.

Stephen Gilberg

But not magical enough to avoid extinction? Or are they hiding?

Some Ed

I remember the commercials from my youth, which explain this adequately: "Smoking is cool". To be clear, I was never cool enough to smoke. Unlike my best friend in high school, who managed to not quite catch himself on fire multiple times when experimenting with fireworks, but came close enough he definitely smoked on quite a few occasions. Not in a way that made tobacco companies any money, but I think he impressed his fan club a bit more doing it his way. [Note: none of them would admit to being his fan club back then. I haven't seen them in decades, so I don't know about now.]