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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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

Make that an Utahraptor and we can reconsider

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

he have an onlyfans?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Clever bird...

[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago

Ahh, the goth chick

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

You S.O.B!

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

None More Black, Hotblack Desiato's preferred fowl.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

What a big boy!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Anyone else ever wonder whether the dinosaurs were delicious?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month 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 1 month 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] 15 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

“Welcome to… Jurassic Farms!

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

Can't wait for brontoburgers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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] 13 points 1 month 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] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"tastes just like chicken"

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

Many of them probably would

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

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

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago

Hoatzin chicks have joined the chat

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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] 12 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

It's not what it seems to be!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

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

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

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

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

How do you call this species?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ani are you groove-billed?

Are you groove-billed, Ani?

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

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

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

All birds are.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I shall name him Kweh-vin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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 1 month 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] 7 points 1 month ago

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

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