β5085[Quote]
>Contrary to popular belief, birds originated in the mesozoic and coexisted with non-avian dinosaurs for most of their existence, still beaten into submission by non-avian dinosaurs and pterosaurs
>Survivied, but were the hardest hit group by the KT extinction and took millions upon millions of years to recover, while mammals and reptiles quickly recovered
>Never achieved dominance in any ecosystem they've established and were always BTFO'd by mammals and reptiles (superior representatives of sauropsida)
>Large flightless birds often lose their wings and become weird and inept armless bipeds, instead of turning their wings back into arms or falling on all fours like a real dinosaur would
>Inefficient takeoff, the largest bird that flew wasn't even half the size of quetzalcoatlus the largest flying animal
>Over ten thousand species, but 60% of them are generic perching birds, often with ridiculous names like "Pileated Titpecker" or something like that, the definition of quantity over quality
>Poster child of falling victim to invasive species
>Factory-farmed by the millions in order to keep humanity well-fed
>The only reason they're successful is because they're the only significant flying animals, they sucked at every single terrestrial niche they ever tried
Despite what ornithocuckologists might tell you and the factoid that they are the only living dinosaurs, nothing changes the fact that birds are nature's biggest losers
β5110[Quote]
evendoe ostriches btfo apex predators with their stomps
pretty much the only example of a bird doing something cool though
β5118[Quote]
>>5100Pterosaurs were the biggest chads of flying animals, but unfortunately the Rothschilds sent that infamous asteroid back in time, causing their total extinction and having birds dominate the sky as the inferior replacement
On the topic of bats, bats do have a few things in common with pterosaurs, most notably how no matter their environment's circumstances and how they adapt to them, bats and pterosaurs always retain their ability to fly, while the moment birdSISSIES find themselves on a tiny island with no predators, they immediately proceed to become flightless, fat and defenseless, eventually dooming their entire lineage in the process
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>>5118I like this creature
β5120[Quote]
If you could grow wings you would. Stay jelly 4ever
β5124[Quote]
>>5120Marge, birds aren't the only things with wings that fly, there are the insects, bats and pterosaurs (rest in peace king)
All three of them do a far better job at flying than birds
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>>5100^BatsEaten by chinks (unfortunately) so they're in the same proverbial boat as Birds
>>5118That was a type of bird though
β5139[Quote]
>>5131You absolute nincompoop, pterosaurs literally are not birds at all, they're classed as a type of reptile
Just take a closer look at it, look at how its wings are made out of skin instead of primary feathers, and how it gets around on all fours which is something you don't see birds do and is a lot more in line with reptiles
Literally the only things pterosaurs have in common with birds is that they have beaks, which by your definition would also mean turtles are birds
β5147[Quote]
Even doe birds can fly so you're wrong. Seagulls are the most unbothered aryanimals.
>can fly like an airplane with big wings.>can swim. landcucks can't do shit no matter how powerful they may be.>can drink sea water. will never go thirsty.>can always hunt fish but can just steal from humans too.>is not useful to humans, yet not going extinct.>>5118There is no way that grotesque thing can fly like a seagull let alone an albatross.
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>>5139It's body looks more bat-like in some areas than bird or reptile like tbf
Especially the feet
β5152[Quote]
>>5148>be too big>go extinct the second a disaster happens and big food becomes too scarce to support your ameribrap tier sizeThanks for playing. Albatrosses regularly circumnavigate the planet. You don't need to be bigger than that.
>>5150Maybe that's because they never were able to get to places where they're not hunted. So they had to keep flight.
β5154[Quote]
>>5147There's also something i forgot to mention, birds may have wings and be able to fly, but we hunans have something birds don't have: Hands, which enables us to do things birds could only ever dream of, even if featherslvttas achieved the same intelligence as humans, they wouldn't be able to do shit as they can't handle objects
Best of all, pterosaurs had hands in their wings essentially getting the best of both worlds, this is kunpengopterus and it was basically a flying monkey, while bird anatomy makes all birds inherently disabled
Ironically enough, birds are physically unable to flip the bird
β5155[Quote]
>>5153They're just freeloaders, take humans out of the picture and this KFC will have nothing going for it
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>>5156Can't hold objects award
No opposable thumbs award
Vantablack plumage award
β5301[Quote]
>>5158They would basically become dragons
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>>5382At least lizards have hands, birds have no functional hands so they have no way to grab objects other than biting them, literal disabled creatures
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>>5784retard nigga have you never seen a single video of a parrot
they have two feet which can hold shit and they can stay on one foot
also they manage to do a similar amount of shit as apes even though the ape has hands and thumbs