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[–] [email protected] 92 points 10 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Okay but why is the first one on the right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Well, it's in sequence from the current one to the previous ones. We traced backwards through time.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Miniature horses are a thing today

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Miss you with the greatest passion

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who tf came up with those names?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Equus is latin but the rest are greek from what I can tell

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Why the troll face at the bottom

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Then there's the recent wussification of horses, from wild western horses that'd charge around carrying gun toting hoodlums of all sorts, to the present day where they clop slowly along the road where you have to pass wide and slow on the offchance that you'll totally freak them out.

Even military horses aren't much better. A pile of bricks fell over in London a few weeks ago and a bunch of guards' horses threw their riders and galloped across the city in blind panic. I bet the ones that carry those dual timps are taking the right piss out of them back at the stables.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 82 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If you've ever lived with a bird, you know the size waned but the terror only grew

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

I love both of mine, but damn do they not quit hahaha

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

except for pidgeons, who are entirely satisfied with the development and demand more seeb and scritches

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I'll accept that. The exception that proves the rule. Never met a pigeon that I didn't like

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Gotta remind you they're dinosaurs.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Lol I was expecting this to be the last panel

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Avenging their ancestors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think about this when I see kiwi birds running and doing mighty kiwi roars at the sky.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

... Do you have footage of this?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8SdqOT_no0

Behold the Kiwi, true heir to the throne of the dinosaurs!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Omg thank you this. The way it runs away with its hands in its pockets afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Most of the big guys died off while the little guys flourished. Being big and requiring more energy to survive is not necessarily better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Devolution confirmed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Evolution means "Survival of the fittest". In English we use "Fit" when we mean strong or enduring. This is very wrong in the scientific context where the word originates.

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

same word, multiple meaning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

How I hated them in ark...