Over at Lawyers, Guns & Money one of the bloggers (bspencer, to be specific) does something called a "Friday Creature Feature" where she profiles some sort of paleontological critter. Today's was the Permian reptile Dimetrodon - that's the dinosaur-y looking one with the big sail on his back, right?
OK, so I enjoy this little feature and I'm reading down the comments section and I come to this:
Denverite says:And in the comment string to this comment are the following:
April 18, 2014 at 12:59 pm
So I had no idea these “mammal-like reptiles” were around long before the reptilian dinosaurs.
Yeah, a lot of people don’t realize that dinosaurs and mammals really kind of evolved parallel with each other. A good way to think of it is that the dinosaurs were the reptiles that evolved into birds, and the mammals were the reptiles that evolved into rats.
mike in dc says:
April 18, 2014 at 4:42 pm
B-B-But then, where did Godzilla come from, if not from the unnatural union of a stegosaur and a T.Rex?
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sharculese says:
April 18, 2014 at 4:57 pm
Well, see, when an undersea lizard and a nuclear blast love each other very much…
And that's the point where I completely lost it and laughed so hard my Diet Coke came out my nose.
I find the comment section often reveals more brilliance and wit than the originating piece.
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