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[–] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

we used to have bunnies and ducks and one time we were cleaning up the bunny place and transferred rabbits to a nearby coop. The ducks gathered around it and started quacking at bunnies in this bully manner the ducks do - and then one of the ducks stuck their head into the coop and mama bunny fucked up this motherfucker and turned the coop upside down in the process. that duck got the scarface nickname as a result.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago*

    Look, lizards are lizards. They had other priorities than looking cute back then. Still have.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    Scientifically accurate Watership Down

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    I am convinced that dinosaurs looked completely different than is being guessed with their skeletons.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 hours ago*

    zero percent fat. Do you even lift, bunny?

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  • [–] 12 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    Look, all I'm saying is we have no proof that the dinosaurs didn't drive cars.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    It's
    "What * * like" (What it looks like)
    OR
    "How * *" (How it looks)
    It's never
    "How * * like"

    How is this so fucking hard to get right.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Oh my god wait does this mean T-Rex was a cutie-wootie-rootie-patootie? 🥹

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  • [–] 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Check out the coffee table book, All Yesterdays. It's half reinterpretations of known fossils, half artist renderings of contemporary animals based only on their skeletons. We're obviously misinterpreting a lot of creatures going just off their skeletons and we'll never know how they really appeared.

    As I recall, this is from the skeleton of a contemporary species of monkey, as an example:

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    [–] 162 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Scientists are the ones who figured out that dinosaurs had feathers. Whenever science is proven wrong, it’s with more/better science.

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  • [–] 76 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    They even know the colouration of a bunch of them, like this Sinosauropteryx:

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  • [–] 38 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    One of the reasons I would love to travel to the future is to see all the ways that people and science are confidently incorrect about depictions of dinosaurs now, and how they're depicted like 300 years in the future. Even within my lifetime, we've gone from slow, fat lizard turds to something realistic like this lil' guy. Amazing stuff.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 day ago

    You might also get to see incorrect depictions of animals from our time that are extinct in the future, depending on how much information is lost between now and then.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 day ago

    Science success story:

    Aboriginal religions generally hold that long ago in the Dreaming times, the world was cold, there was less water, and the coast was further away. You used to be able to walk to many of the islands around the Australian coast, because there were land bridges.

    White people generally assumed these stories were mythological fiction, because white people are often racist and intolerant. However, science eventually figured out that 10,000 years ago, there was an ice age. The polar ice caps were bigger, and the ocean was shallower. Those land bridges were found under the modern ocean through satellite imaging. Aboriginal religions were right, and science proved that these religious histories had been preserved and kept accurate for 10,000 years!

    Science wins again!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    While true about the proto feathers dinosaurs had, the mis id of their species as reptiles lives on to this day. Half the population doesn't even know they are from birds, and were warm blooded.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    Eh? Dinosaurs are reptiles in any system of classification I know of.

    I'm not quite sure what you're getting at but it sounds like you're referring to the fact that, cladistically, birds are dinosaurs. But there were non-bird dinosaurs, and what this all means for the clades is just that all birds are reptiles.

    Of course normally we are not speaking cladistically. In that context, birds are not dinosaurs, but dinosaurs are still reptiles, and reptiles excludes birds.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    Birds are ancestors of dinosaurs. They were warm blooded, any split with reptiles happened long since. Jesus Christ.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago

    Birds are descendants of dinosaurs.

    It doesn't make sense to talk of "splits" unless you presume a cladistic view, which I explicitly did not. The point of a split is ill-defined unless you're talking about a clade.

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    [–] 26 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on! He'll do you up a treat, mate.

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    [–] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Their spines are fascinating. They're designed to store a lot of potential energy and release it in short bursts.

    Rabbits can fuckin' move, and the biomechanics behind why is absolutely enthralling.

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    [–] 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Just in case though... let's prepare the holy hand granade... juuuuust in case...

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    [–] 12 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    This has always been the one thing that has always bug me with the creation of dinosaurs in book, tv, movies etc. If you look at the skulls of hippos or elephants, they look far different than the actual living animal.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Artist/authors John Conway and C. M. Kosemen have a book called All Yesterdays about this subject.

    https://designyoutrust.com/2020/09/if-we-drew-modern-animals-the-way-we-draw-dinosaurs-based-on-bones-alone/

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