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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Birds don’t just look like dinosaurs they are dinosaurs, scientifically speaking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Though by that logic, we're all amphibians or something.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The whole "dinosaurs having feathers makes them less scary" line of thought is kinda silly.

If you stick a pink bow and glitter on a knife, it doesn't become any leas deadly, plus good luck getting that glitter out of your wounds if you do make it to the "I need to get that glitter out of my wounds" stage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

...it's a cartoon...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Bird genre?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

When did and why did dinosaurs go from giant fangs to beaks? Or are reptiles more direct descendants of those dinosaurs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Fangs are still pretty rare in reptiles. Most lizards have basically some form of serrated beak.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

fwiw there were plenty of non-avian dinosaurs with beaks, ceratopsids for one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Birds are the only direct descendents of dinosaurs. Reptiles were around at the same time as dinosaurs and evolved independently. There are huge differences, scales instead of skin and feathers, cold blooded instead of warm, etc.

Why Do Birds No Longer Have Teeth?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

TL;DR: Beaks are a lot lighter and more easily adapted than teeth.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

(Potentially) [NSFW]

Tap for spoiler

Edit: This one's been floating around the net for long enough that I'd forgotten what the feathery chap in the back left was up to!

Hidden behind a spoiler for those who don't want to see an owl swallowing an entire rat(!)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Owls really are basically cats.

Ps, pls put a NSFW on it haha. I don't mind but others will.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Good call - not sure you can tag images in comments as NSFW (to get the auto-blur), but I've hidden it in spoiler tags.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

It's not what it seems to be!

[–] [email protected] 111 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

he have an onlyfans?

[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

You should hear the sound they make. Thumping bass that you feel as much as you hear it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Cassoway = Velociraptors if they could also fly short distances.
Though fortunately generally non-aggressive unless you piss them off.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

pretty sure velociraptors were actually smaller lmao, more along the size of turkeys

cassowaries are significantly scarier than velociraptors would have been.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Make that an Utahraptor and we can reconsider

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Well who on earth would be foolish enough to piss them off?

Tap for answer

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Clever bird...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

All birds are.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago

Hoatzin chicks have joined the chat

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