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[–] [email protected] 113 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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

Make that an Utahraptor and we can reconsider

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

he have an onlyfans?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Clever bird...

[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 months ago (8 children)

My favorite dinosaur is the Ayam Cemani AKA the big black cock

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago

Ahh, the goth chick

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

You S.O.B!

I just tried to find more info, and now I feel bad about myself...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

None More Black, Hotblack Desiato's preferred fowl.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

What a big boy!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hmm, I got different results using a search engine...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

This better not awaken anything in me.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Anyone else ever wonder whether the dinosaurs were delicious?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (4 children)

100% they absolutely were.

Give geneticists 20 years, we'll have lab grown T-Rex in the grocery store

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I suspect T-Rex (like carnivores in general) isn't such a good choice if meat is your goal. Sauropods on the other hand? Tons and tons of meat from a single herbivore animal. You might even be able to use existing cattle feed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Well that's true if you have a live animal producing your meat. Not sure that applies if the meat is lab grown though?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

At the point where we're making lab-grown dinosaur meat, I suspect the cool factor is way more important than silly things like efficiency. T-Rex meat all the way babyyy

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

“Welcome to… Jurassic Farms!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Great, can't wait to hear beards gatekeep ancient flavor.

"T-Rex is soooo gamey. I prefer Diplodocus veal" "Have you tried pteranodon wings? Like buffalo wings from real buffalo"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can't wait for brontoburgers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Or the ribs that are so good that you order them knowing you're gonna have to flip your car back on its wheels when you're done.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"tastes just like chicken"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Many of them probably would

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

i'd imagine they'd largely taste like wild turkey/alligator, since that's basically what they were and how they lived.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just need to know which one would be best with stuffing and gravy for Thanksgiving.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Forget the turducken. This year we're having brachiotyranotriceradilophovelociturducken.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago

Hoatzin chicks have joined the chat

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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] 24 points 2 months 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] 14 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

It's not what it seems to be!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

So your favorite bird genre is birds as a whole? Nice, me too!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do you call this species?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ani are you groove-billed?

Are you groove-billed, Ani?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

may christ have mercy on my soul, i read this in watto's voice

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Thank you so much, I just learned there's a blue version

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

All birds are.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I shall name him Kweh-vin.

[–] BoobaAwooga 5 points 2 months 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] 13 points 2 months 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?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

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

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