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On 2022-12-13, Thomas Koenig <
tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
Somehow, I am thinking that smoked pterodactyl does not taste like
chicken. Or turkey. Probably more like hawk or buzzard.
Probably like Dinachicken (with a nod to Asimov).
I think that story predates the modern understanding that birds
_are_ dinosaurs.
Pterosaurs, meanwhile, were not dinosaurs, although closely related.
The struggle for hegemony between the synapsids (that includes us)
and the diapsids (that includes the dinosaurs) has been going on
for some time. First we had the upper hand. Then came the
Permian-Triassic extinction and the diapsids ruled. The
Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction put an end to that, and now it's us
again.
Meanwhile I'm told the cephalopods are getting uppity in the oceans.
Which is why I bought some octopus today. Do your part, fight the
tentacled menace, eat cephalopod today!
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber
naddy@mips.inka.de
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