While we are doing religious stuff, another myth is that when the Bible, translated into English, refers to an eagle, it is actually referring to an eagle. This is not exactly dumb (why would you not assume “eagle” refers to an eagle?), but it’s also not correct.
…it’s actually a griffon vulture. (“And he will raise you up on vulture’s wings…” sounds pretty good to me.)
(If you look it up in a lexicon, it actually says that the word may be translated “eagle” if it is a positive reference and “vulture” if it is a negative reference. “Eagles are good and vultures are bad” actually is a dumb myth.)
Raptor Jesus is a popular meme of the past, sometimes he cradles a baby raptor and sometimes he is a raptor himself.
I think the original picture was made as a joke, but I guess people can interpret it in different ways.
I do remember pictures of dinosaurs dying in the great flood in the religious books I had as a kid.
I have successfully(ish) trained goldfish to jump through hoops. They remember things well, but mine had an attention span of about 3 seconds XD
I have successfully kept two male bettas together with no problem, and my current betta, also male, lives in a community tank with cory cats, killifish, and snails.
I have only seen this said with goldfish, plecos, and turtles- I had to rehome a turtle because he grew faster than expected, and build a pond for my goldfish before they outgrew their tank. That, and I’ve had to explain to multiple people how big plecos actually get. The only reason I dont have one in my pond is because they cant handle the winter where I live, and I dont have anywhere to keep it in the winter.
Black spiny-tailed iguanas can eat manchineel fruit, which comes from a tree so toxic it has warning signs to avoid them if it’s raining. Wound not suggest eating.
I know this was written almost half a year ago, but…
Taxonomy may not be the best tool to look at evolutionary history, extinct phyla, and relatedness. That is why we have phylogeny/cladistics which offer a more precise classification, not limited by a strict hierarchy of “class”, “order”, “family”, “genus”.
My understanding is that at our current knowledge we have the monophylum “Sauropsida” which encompasses all “reptiles”, birds, as well as all their extinct relatives. Lizards and snakes (Squamata) evolve in the line of Lepidosauromorpha, whereas crocodiles and dinosaurs (incl. birds) evolve in the line of Archosauromorpha.
The placement of turtles (Testudines) is uncertain, I believe.
Therefore, class “reptilia” as a sister taxon of birds isn’t valid anymore, as it would be paraphyletic.
Additionally, the sister group of Sauropsida is Synapsida, in which mammals evolved (and are the only non-extinct group today). Most other Synapsida look more similar to the standard “reptile” than they do to mammals (therefore both of these phyla are placed in “Reptiliomorpha”). So I would argue a strictly morphological definition of “reptile” wouldn’t be useful.
(This is all my understanding of the phylogeny of “reptiles” (sensu lato), and gaps filled with a quick look at Wikipedia cladograms, sooo… yeah… this may be entirely wrong)
Working in biodiversity conservation I can tell you that this is far from being true. It would make things much easier for us if it were, but it’s not at all the case.
I’m not sure if this counts as a myth or not, but it sure is dumb. As an employee of T-Mobile, you have to take various training classes, one of which is for dealing with animals you might encounter while working in the field. I took a photo of my screen from the course exam… of a question I got wrong… telling you to wrestle a deer to the ground by its antlers if it attacks you. I don’t even know where to start with this one.
