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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

That's how they catch their prey

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Does that look like the face of mercy?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Fine, you can have a chicken nugget

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I don't mean to alarm you, but someone has shat on the porch"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

They who sat it shat it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Bros got the gamer posture.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

It's Bob The Bear, hello Bob.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

bears, including grizzlies, were medium-sized predators in pleistocene north america. there were at least four more formidable predators until like 10K years ago; the reason they seem silly for apex predators is that we killed the real ones

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The biggest one of these was the short-faced bear, and i wouldn't be surprised if they looked even sillier.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yeah if polar bears are still cute shortfaces could probably have managed

I do wonder whether smilodon was cute in some small and unexpected way. probably.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

I'd think so, given how jaguars look when they want cuddles. Jaguars are fucking terrifying, they're all muscle and skull-cracking jaws, but there's times when they're just really large and powerful kittens. I'm sure the sabretooths looked really goofy with at least some of their facial expressions, not just Smilodon or the other sabretooth felines. Can't help but wonder how possum-like Thylocosmilus was in some moments.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I like giant ground sloths. They just wanna eat leaves all day, but will absolutely kill you just as fast as a bear. Those scientists gotta get the cloning vats running.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

bears are guys