Why does everyone know what a Megalapteryx is and actively defend that knowledge now?

Because all it takes is a few seconds on Google.

it's not a dinosaur foot. it's a Megalapteryx or upland moa foot. a bird that died off only 500 years ago. google Megalapteryx if you want.

The paw is from a Dodo or some bird from the Oceanic area, not a dinosaur, it is actually about 500 years old instead of 50,000,000 years old.

I didn't make the content.
My only intention was to share this for others to see.
Am I a bad person for doing this?

No dude, you aren't bad for this. Alot of people take everything I write here for granted, as you can see. However, it's very easy to look up this dinosaur and see that it's nowhere near to be the best preserved dinosaur foot, since we still have other bird feet to look at today. It is a dinosaur though, an avian one. :D

Yes, don't just take all information you find on the internet as pure "fact"

The 2000 people who green thumbed the original content... of all those people who concurred with the content, how could I be expected to know?
It's just a small post, those who disagree, scroll down, not tarnish my account.

Yes, FunnyJunk as a whole seems to do the same thing that you did, but the fact that you are spreading this false information is really the problem.

There is a delete post also, stoopid. Come on, don't pretend like those -8 thumbs are your life, and if they are you might want to change something...

I'm not intentionally spreading false information, nor is this information destructive.
I know there is a delete post, but this time I'm standing up for myself. I don't want to have to be forced to do it.
It's taken me a long time to build comment thumbs for my account, and I know how just a few thumbs can split up the percentages.

Get over your self, suck up the red thumbs and delete your post if you care that much. Otherwise I can do this all day.

If you were in my shoes...
Fuck it, fj doesn't understand shit when they hate someone, it seems to take this group-mind effect that deflects the humanity of the person.
Maybe I'm being a bit deep, but someone needs to talk about this.

This site is ruled by tits and thumbs, seriously, get over yourself. The -13 thumbs you have now are there forever, it's your call man.

"Get over yourself"?
Basically an utterance to conformity.
Fuck conformity.

Again, stop being such an idiot (is that worded better?). If you want to just spread lies and be as stoopid as possible, go to FaceBook.

Yes, Stoopid

Now I'm spreading lies?
Birds are basically Avial dinosaurs.

Lie [lahy] - an inaccurate or false statement.

So yes, you are spreading false information, i.e. a lie.

Again; you wouldn't just see a Blue Jay and say, "Hey dude, look at that dinosaur"

But a Megalapteryx is more close in ancestry to a dinosaur; heap's close.
A blue jay? Bad example.

A Megalapteryx lived closer to the modern blue jay than it ever did to any "dinosaurs"

People are starting to red-thumb it for the fun of it. Fuck fj logic.
I didn't expect to find so many people know what a Megalapteryx is and protect it so bad. I'm getting off fj for the night but I need to delete this shit before more Megalapteryx defenders red-thumb it beyond shit overnight and fuck up my account I've worked so hard on.

But it is still practically biologically relative to a dinosaur.

myrtille, flash your ego elsewhere. I have enough assholes to deal with.

Again, it is like saying we are still relatives to a circus monkey.

"You’ll hear people tell you that birds are dinosaurs, and that is supposed to blow you away and make you go all gaga about birds and evolution. People also say that hyraxes are elephants, but they are so distant in their relationship that it is little different than saying that deer are a type of pronghorn antelope"

Wow, if your account thumbs are that important to you, then you need to get a new hobby...

a 'flesh' from not so dinosaur

Wait what? Since when was this 'not so'?

Megalapteryx was actually a bird. BAMF, but not a dinosaur.

OP here. Did you know that birds actually are dinosaurs? So it isn't completely false in its statement.

Quite, but he could as well post a pic of a frozen chicken. What I meant was that it's not a dinosaur in common, not very accurate meaning of that word. Still, thanks for pointing it out.

Exactly! A frozen, or even better, an alive chicken would absolutely be a better preserved dinosaur. ^^

These bird were from recorded history however, not from prehistory. So it may be so that some birds might be considered dinosaurs, this one is in fact not a dinosaur.

That is false. All birds that has ever lived are in the same family, they belong in the theropod dinosaur group, like Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus. But as I said, it's hardly to best preserved dinosaur remain in that sense.

They might all be from the same family but you don't just see a Blue Jay and say, "Hey dude, look at that dinosaur"

You could, actually. It's kind of mind boggling to think like that, though. It has been an accepted theory among scientists for a couple of years now. :D

I have to piggy back on your post because its what I tell my friends all the time. Saying birds are dinosaurs is entirely correct, BUT so is saying all mammals are reptiles. The problem with dinosaurs is that they don't fit into either birds or reptiles, they are an intermediary (sp?) group. In reality all life is a continuum and placing animals in groups like the Linnean system does is, imho, an outdated idea.

I like your way of thinking. But, I would place mammals with reptiles in the same way putting birds into dinosaurs. Why? Because there is little to no difference between a modern bird and a non-avian dinosaur, at least the theropod ones. Give Microraptor a beak and shorten its tail; you have a bird. Mammals and reptiles have completely different body functions, as in cold- vs warmblooded, the embryo starting point, milk vs no milk, etc.

Again;
The 2000 people who green thumbed the original content... of all those people who concurred with the content, how could I be expected to know?
It's just a small post, those who disagree, scroll down, not tarnish my account.

Also, not to go over the fact that people on this site will thumb up just about anything: boobs, dinosaurs, life "hacks", overused memes, etc.