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Obviously no Human era PODs are going to change the animals themselves. Paleontologists will likely find the same fossils of the same animals in more or less the same places. However, the naming of the animals has the potential to be much different. For example look at the name of the most famous dinosaur, the Tyrannosaurus Rex (Tyrant Lizard King). It could just as easily be named something else entirely. Just off the top of my head "Tyrannosuchus Rex" (Tyrant Crocodile King), or in a timeline where the evolutionary link between birds and Dinosaurs is better understood earlier, "Tyrannoornis Rex (Tyrant Bird King), and that's just assuming it has a roughly similar name as OTL. Take Velociraptor (fast bird of prey) that same name could be given to any number of extinct birds or dinosaurs. You need look no further than OTL for examples of how dinosaur names could be vastly different if someone else discovers them. For example, Apatosaurus and Brontosaurs are the same animal, but because their fossils where discovered independently around the same time by two different scientists, they have two different names. All this is still assuming that another timeline will use the same Linnaeus system of biological classification as OTL.
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