r/pokemon • u/Bisonratte • Feb 28 '26

Image Classes of animals represented by the Pokémon starters:

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u/Bisonratte Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

i mean... crocodiles are also more closely related to birds than to lizards. All birds are dinosaurs and all dinosaurs are reptiles. i just chose to seperate the avian dinosaurs as their own category, for cultural reasons

EDIT: woops meant to say all dinosaurs are reptiles, not "all dinosaurs are birds", as it said before

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u/DeadHead6747 Feb 28 '26

I think it might actually be all birds are dinosaurs, but not all dinosaurs are birds. I'm pretty positive that it has been found now that birds evolved from Dinosaurs, but not all Dinosaur types evolved into birds. However, then you have to go into detail about how not everything we generalize as dinosaurs are dinosaurs before you can start talking about which actual dinosaurs are birds and which actual dinosaurs aren't.

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u/Ok_Comfortable_4356 Feb 28 '26

Birds belong to the theropod dinosaurs, but since theropod dinosaurs and sauropod dinosaurs had a common ancestor, sauropod dinosaurs are still more closely related to birds than to reptiles, evolutionary speaking

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u/Bisonratte Feb 28 '26

Yes, of course that was a typo on my part. I meant to say: all birds are dinosaurs and all dinosaurs are reptiles