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[–] [email protected] 110 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 75 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 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] 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

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

Make that an Utahraptor and we can reconsider

[–] jimmux 9 points 4 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

he have an onlyfans?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Clever bird...

[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days 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 2 days ago

...it's a cartoon...

[–] [email protected] 104 points 5 days ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 days ago

Ahh, the goth chick

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

You S.O.B!

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

None More Black, Hotblack Desiato's preferred fowl.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

This better not awaken anything in me.

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

Simple; beautiful; classic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

What a big boy!

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago

Hoatzin chicks have joined the chat

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Anyone else ever wonder whether the dinosaurs were delicious?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 days 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 5 days 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] 13 points 5 days 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 5 days 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] 26 points 5 days ago

“Welcome to… Jurassic Farms!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days 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 5 days ago (1 children)

Can't wait for brontoburgers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days 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 5 days ago (1 children)

"tastes just like chicken"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Many of them probably would

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days 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] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Would they taste like chicken, or like lizard?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Most birds don't taste like chicken though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Not even all parts of a chicken taste the same.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 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 5 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 5 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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How do you call this species?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Ani are you groove-billed?

Are you groove-billed, Ani?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

All birds are.

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