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[–] [email protected] 204 points 2 months ago (7 children)

According to Wikipedia that is because the bird-hipped ones looked like modern birds and the names came before we realized the error.

Hooray!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Dinosaur translates to "terrible lizard" so retaining outdated terminology is on brand.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, some of them were pretty damn terrible!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

They're so terrible at being lizard that they turn out to be birds...

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