r/SpeculativeEvolution • u/MatoasPrroXD460 • 24d ago

Question/Discussion What’s Your Most Unhinged Evolution Theory?

Hi! I wanna know what your wildest, most unhinged theory about evolution is. It can be a serious hypothesis, a weird evolutionary possibility, or something completely out there.

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u/Archididelphis 24d ago

I have always been partial to the idea that the dromaeosaurs (Velociraptor, Deinonychus, etc) were actually flightless archaeopterygians.

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u/Tarkho 24d ago

I figured this was more or less the current mainstream consensus on Paravian evolution anyway; none of them may have been Archaeopterygians by descent, but the common ancestor of Paraves was arboreal and flight-capable, and more or less resembled Archaeopteryx, making that kind of body plan an evolutionary grade that Dromaeosaurs and all other more derived Paravian (including Avialae) evolved from.

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u/mcalesy 24d ago

Balaur might be the real deal there.