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thanks for clarifying the pineapple issue

This is both very informative and helpful!

This is absolutely amazing, instantly among my top ten. I can't believe you keep coming up with these brilliantly hilarious works so regularly.

Put old fashioned "Republicans" in the top left quadrant

Stapler is still in the wrong spot.

But what if I curve my back, bend my knees, stand on the ball of my feet and pinch my thumb and pinky into my palm while curving my other three fingers? Stalking around my house and eating lunch meat from the fridge

Suspicious looking pineapple on the bottom right.

Mmm. I could argue the hunch of a squirrel is reminiscent, and a stapler is DEFINITELY dinosaur coded

Idk my smaller cat makes some dino calls during a nail trimming. You'll never summon back up raptors, KB!

Pretty sure the man in the fourth image is my Uncle Albert - there's a strong resemblance - and he's a bit of a dinosaur.

@feraldactal.bsky.social it's a crime you haven't been tagged in this yet!

Time to freshen up some ideas about dinobirds: youtu.be/ikFUIzCHzq4

I was raised not long after it had become pretty settled that birds were descended from dinosaurs. People would say they were dinosaurs just to emphasize the connection. I was surprised not long ago when I found out that in the intervening decades that had become an accepted literal description.

Everyone all riled up about stapler classification but let’s be real…fax machines are more dinosaur

Remember kids, Mr.Dimetrodon is more related to you than to any reptile. If anything, it’s your distant grand-uncle thrice removed!

Staplers are dinosaurs. I will die on this hill.

there are no squares. ez dub w pwn 1337 mogging

YOU CAN'T GET ME THAT WAY I COVERED THAT IN THE ALT TEXT HAHAHAAHAHAH

Staple-REMOVERS on the other hand belong in the top right corner.

gonna start calling them archos so I can continue not distinguishing

Ah! I see you are not familiar with Diplodos.

Too much arthropod I guess 😔

Weirdly enough, Rabbits are indeed in the "Don't seem like Dinosaur, Are Dinosaurs" category

I strongly beg to differ in the case of cassowaries. They know they are T rex.

And then you meet these guys, and yup, *definitely* in the upper left quadrant. youtu.be/kDMHHw8JqLE?...

I mean. I personally do not call their puddle jumps flying, but that’s just me. It’s more like propelled jumping.

Don't forget the Secretary Bird!

I’ve played with penguins before. 🤭 They’re still happily adorable.

Or moorhen

This could have been Lewis Carrol

Don't know why the title text and all the comments are mentioning staplers when that is clearly a mimic octopus mimicing a stapler.

You're not gonna fool us by putting your avatar in the lower right. We know The Truth

There's something DEEPLY wrong with these ferns...

there are a whole bunch of proto-animals that growing up i just counted as dinosaurs, The Great Dying is a great topic and we have near no evidence of the weirdness that existed before it 😭

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Plesiosaur is not a dinosaur?!😧 It's my favourite! (Specially Elasmosaurus.) And I'm shocked for the others in the case too...

Penguins are my favorite dinosaurs.

Not sure I'm ready to believe that the Loch Ness Monster is not a dinosaur 🤔

My bff was looking out at the geese in our cove the other day & said, "y'all used to be dinosaurs" 😂😂

staplers aren’t dinosaurs but staple removers are

You missed a golden opportunity to portray the 2 Tyrannosaurus Rexes looking up at the star with a table saw between them.

It’s a dinosaur- ish sort of name. The Staplerpod

bsky.app/profile/xkcd...

worth a thousand words

@tinyarms-tinyart.bsky.social 🦕

That’s why we’re friends, a shared interest in paleoart!

Stapler almost got you though, I bet

What’s crazier is the time between the first dimetrodon and first dinosaur is about as long between us and T. rex.

The real information we need

Ostriches definitely seems like dinosaurs

That's a very handy chart to have. It can encapsulate everything 🤗

Everyone is arguing about the stapler while I'm sure the squirrel os an obvious theropod

Dunno, I see a few featherless bipeds in the top left where they belong and BEHOLD one featherless biped in the bottom right looking out of place

I think it's time to update your taxonomy tables, pineapples are dinosaurs bud.

Staplers are clearly not dinosaurs. Staplers removers on the other hand...

Pterosaurs ARE dinosaurs! Avemetatarsalia = Dinosaurs!

@ryannorth.ca

You need a third row. "Wants to be one"

bicycle?

Strongly disagree that cassowaries/emu don't seem like dinosaurs.

The shoebill and the casawary look exactly like dinosaurs. That's why they are so angry, the disrespect.

Recon Dementia Don aced this test?

Sounds like one too.

how can this be trusted when it marks staplers as not like dinosaur….

A lore do @vellure.bsky.social

is that the Swingline? cuz they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler but I kept my Swingline cuz it doesn’t bind up as much….

😂

At last I understand the difference between cladistic and evolutionary taxonomy.

You taught me something today, Randall. Thank you. I had no idea Dimetrodons & Pteranodons predated dinosaurs by MILLIONS OF YEARS.

Childhood ruined

The comics are all creative commons non-commercial attribution licensed, so you are allowed to get the image and print it out as a poster! As long as you don't sell it.

I have a question not answered by your diagram...

for the most part birds don’t seem like dinosaurs, but sometimes a pigeon looks at you the wrong way and you See It

Where's Don Rumsfeld when you need him 😜

Are you sure bikes aren't dinosaurs?

I disagree on the Cassowary It definitely feels like a dinosaur

Accurate!

so. i can't be a a dinosaur. are we sure about this one or is it more of a jury's still out situation

Needs more excavators, but still useful.

Seem like dinosaur are all charcoal

People that are white nationalists are dinosaurs.

The archosaur menace is real.

@deenadeena.bsky.social

I am so sasmd to learn that bikes are not dinosaur.

FU, microbes does not seems like dinosaures and does not is to exists! </troll>

Squirrels people. Apex predator right there. *jokes*

bsky.app/profile/xkcd...

Goddamn you, cladistics. Goddamn you the hell.

Y-axis classification of the stapler is a function of the classifier's age (even more so for staple-pullers)

They *are* made of dinosaur meat.

...yeah? I made a typo and corrected it, I'm not sure what you're trying to say here

Dimetro-DONT CALL HIM a dinosaur.

Title text: "Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3204#Transcript

not gonna lie, I'm gonna have to contest the stapler and the cassowary both of those seem like dinosaurs to me then again, I grew up on the original Jurassic Park and its dinosaur craze

Ayyyy thank you for alt texting

@depsurrel.bsky.social important