adrianhooves@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoif i live in a place that used to be full of almost all dinosaurs, does that mean i could have dinosaur heritage??message-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down122file-text
arrow-up1-10arrow-down1message-squareif i live in a place that used to be full of almost all dinosaurs, does that mean i could have dinosaur heritage??adrianhooves@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square12fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 days agoNo, for a couple of different reasons: Mammals diverged from reptiles approximately 325 million years ago during the Carboniferous period. So your potential dinosaur heritage has nothing to do with where you live now. Carboniferous Earth: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous Dinosaurs wouldn’t evolve until 230 million years ago. About 100 million years after mammals had already split off from the reptile family tree. So there’s no chance you have any dinosaur DNA. Our family and their famlly evolved long after the split had already happened.
minus-squareadrianhooves@lemmy.todayOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agodang… i think that is a very long time ago in human terms but still it’s amazing how fast time flies, well at least we got cool dino-like reptiles. oh well thanks!!
No, for a couple of different reasons:
So your potential dinosaur heritage has nothing to do with where you live now.
Carboniferous Earth:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous
So there’s no chance you have any dinosaur DNA. Our family and their famlly evolved long after the split had already happened.
dang… i think that is a very long time ago in human terms but still it’s amazing how fast time flies, well at least we got cool dino-like reptiles. oh well thanks!!
And birds! ;)