Aves

@Fire Campaign

Tarchia

Stegouros

Bistahieversor

Baby and Juvenile tarbosaurus

Lystrosaurus curvatus

Shunosaurus

Scutellosaurus

Argentavis

Teratornis

Camarasaurus

These dudes (majungasaurus, beelzebufo and madstoia)

Pentaceratops

Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus

Titanis walleri

And proterosuchus

Let's say that dinosaurs had somehow survived into the present and humanity evolved anyways, much like in Ken Ham's warped perception of history. How do you think Linnean taxonomy would classify dinosaurs? We now know birds are just very specialized reptiles, but Linnean taxonomy considers them a different class (I personally get pissed every time birds are considered to be their own class, but I digress).

I think dinosaurs like Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Brachiosaurus, and Spinosaurus would be classified as "reptiles" while Velociraptor would be classified as a "bird" (Deinocheirus would probably be considered to be an extremely large bird), but how would dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus and Yutyrannus fare? Share your thoughts down below, and you can mention any dinosaur you want.

Yo dudes, its me Hobo. Wanted to make an announcement now that June is coming up. I hope everyone had a good Memorial Day, and thanks to our troops who gave it all. Now, on to business.

Many know that the wiki side of this community is generally overshadowed by discussion boards (and most of the pages are generally less than acceptable), so the discord has decided It would be cool if we all came together and worked on fixing that. Thanks to @BigDumFish99 for coming up with the idea. Hopefully this works so we can make this a monthly challenge to fix the wiki bit by bit, using themes and rewards every month!

To start with we'll only do 500 edits, just to see how fast we're able to complete it, but this could be subject to change. If we get it done fast enough, we may just push it to even more! With that being said:

THE RULES:

• Each month we're only doing one subject, from the time this is posted to the end of June the theme will be birds, or avian dinosaurs. This goes for their pages and any families/clades of bird. Any other edits of other pages would be appreciated but wouldn't be counted towards your points.

• You have to self-report your edits here, to cut down on confusion. Just make a brief summary of what you did to the page (Ex: edited Rodriguez Solitaire, removed plagiarism, and added an image), this would count as one point. Now if you take a stub article that is only a sentence or two long (or making a brand new page for a bird) and make it into a page more akin to the wiki's standards would add 5 points. Replacing all plagiarized content in pages with completely original info will also award you those. I'll give an example as the first comment if you guys are confused.

• Please don't just make your edits super low effort (such as just adding an image or a couple categories), that won't count here mostly due to it being an easy way to cheese the system and would clutter pages and this post to an unnatural degree. I'd like to be able to count these well.

• Please be civil towards each other, and don't start edit wars or anything.

• Oh and please only respond to this post to report your edits or ask any questions. Anything else will be deleted so we can count easier.

Prizes for #1 contributor

• Discord: The ability to choose what the movie/show (or if you want to stream your gameplay for some reason) is on for the discord watch party.

• Dinopedia-Only users: commission @BigDumFish99 to draw/paint something for you (likely wont be finished before July so fair warning)

• Reward for both sides: commission @Cooner21 to make something for you, you get added to the main page for the month, AND you will be added to the new page of the Hall of Fame.

• If you are on the discord and dinopedia both, you can choose one or the other.

If you need examples for what a page should look like, please refer to these pages and a post from our very own Kelbeam.

• Examples for families and clades: Felidae, Bovidae, Arthropoda.

• Examples for specific genera: Simurghia, Eocetus, Koleken.

And now...

MAJOR ORDER: Make up to 500 avian dinosaur page edits before the end of June:

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500 edits

The colors are based on magpies (a bird that lives in Alaska and one I often see outside)

In the book it is potrayed as being the size of a raven but since this is a tooth taxon, this size is entirely speculative.

Specifically Utahraptors

Based on this image

@Yoshua Z.O

This is what Paleontology and evolution showed us that makes everything weird

• Humans are great apes, and great apes are monkeys.

• Dolphins are whales, and whales are hoofed mammals like deer and pigs.

• Birds are dinosaurs and are also "reptiles" which is actually an invalid classification.

• Insects are crustaceans.

• All vertebrata are a form of fish.

• Dimetrodon was not a reptile

• Rodents are fairly closely related to primates (more closely related to use than a brachiosaurus is to a tyrannosaurus

• Tyrannosaurus and galiforms shared a common ancestor

• Snakes are lizards

If any of these things are inaccurate please tell me