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  • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafe
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    So are dragons. Unless they don’t have front legs, but they they’re wyverns.

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      …drakes…

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        Drakes have no wings.

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      Depends on the wings. If they’re back mounted, I’m not sure they count. They don’t count for insects. We don’t say flies have 8 limbs.

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        They could be extensions of the scapula. This would make the renditions where pegasus appears to be galloping while flying more accurate.

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Griffins an a few other mythical creatures would be too. Pegasus may or may not. The original was sired by Poseidon and itself was a god, but its since become a generic name for winged horses so that leaves room for debate.

      Yes I do enjoy fiction taxonomy, why do ask?

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        Angels in most renditions have bird wings (i.e. arms) growing from their backs in addition to normal arms and legs.

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          B̵̠̿̓̄͋̿͛̃͛̍͘͠Ē̵͎̙̹͖̪̼̖̂̄͆̀̀̆͠ ̸̧̖̪͉̪̘̳̫̝͌͋Ņ̵̟̰͉͖͇̩̾̀̔̌̎̒͜O̷͚̰̩̲͈͗̌̒͒̑͊͐͜͝T̸̢̲̤̥͇̣̙̩͛́ ̵̧̝͉̻̿͆͂̊́̋͑Ą̵͖̻̳̒́͗͒͋̍̓̿̃̍͛F̴͕̝̝̈͆̓͌̀͛̓̈́͝͠Ṛ̴̨͇̲͆̀͛͗̈́͗ͅẠ̵͙̝̦͙͕̦̠͗͒͜͜ͅI̴͎̖̿͛̿̿̐̅͆̄̈́̕͜͠D̸͙̫̼͍̪̣̲̩̋̌͐̐́̀ ̶̹̟̥̑̈̍̕͘

          • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.world
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            AAAAA HEEEELP I’M COVERED IN EYES

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              Give them back!

              • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.world
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                No ms potato

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    “Almost all” means that if you pull six-legged animals names outnof a hat you’re nearly guaranteed to find an insect. Doesn’t mean you can’t pull the non-insect first try, and doesn’t mean that centaurs must be insects.

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      This bias is to biology only found in our experience. What if theres an alien physiology that ruins this argument.

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        I’d argue centaur world is its own tree of life until proof exists that earth life and centaur world life had a common ancestor.

      • Naz@sh.itjust.works
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        sigh Okay scientist, you can look at my dragon dick

        … For science

        “Wait, what’s the mould for?”

      • Soup@lemmy.world
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        Exactly.

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      They’d still be an arthropod even if they weren’t a species of insect. So I guess the question is whether all six-legged arthropods have ovipositors. Sounds likely.

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    ‘Almost all’ makes me wonder about what the other ones are

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      Springtails?

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      Crustaceans, probably.

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        Don’t most of them have 8 or more limbs?

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          Yes, most do. The question wasn’t about most.

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        You mean, “sea bugs?”

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        deleted by creator

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    This feels like a targeted attack on parts of booktok. Has there been a counter-offensive, and where is the popcorn?

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