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[โ€“] cybervseas@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That also means Archaeopteryx has a middle finger.

A bird that can flip you the bird.

Wouldn't it flip you the human instead?

[โ€“] kewwwi@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

bawk baawk /s

[โ€“] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Archeo means old, pter means wing, is yx just a suffix or does it mean something in itself?

[โ€“] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The -yx comes from the Greek word "onyx" which means claw or talon. So, anything ending in a -yx is designated that way to say that it has sharp cutty bits that will hurt you.

[โ€“] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

My dog is Tony!

[โ€“] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Archaeopteryx answering you with air quotes .... "yx"

Fun bio fact: there's also an extinct plant named Archaeopteris, thought for some time to be the world's first tree.

[โ€“] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And it got the worm because it was an early bird

[โ€“] Malgas@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Hadn't learned to walk without rhythm yet.

[โ€“] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago