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[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours 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.

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

...it's a cartoon...

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 111 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 74 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 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.

[–] Cordyceps@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Make that an Utahraptor and we can reconsider

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago

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

[–] match@pawb.social 15 points 2 days ago

he have an onlyfans?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Clever bird...

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 105 points 3 days ago (8 children)

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

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

Simple; beautiful; classic.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 64 points 3 days ago

Ahh, the goth chick

[–] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

This better not awaken anything in me.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

You S.O.B!

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

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago

None More Black, Hotblack Desiato's preferred fowl.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 49 points 3 days ago

Hoatzin chicks have joined the chat

[–] IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 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(!)

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Owls really are basically cats.

Ps, pls put a NSFW on it haha. I don't mind but others will.

[–] IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 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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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 53 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Anyone else ever wonder whether the dinosaurs were delicious?

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 56 points 3 days ago (4 children)

100% they absolutely were.

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

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 37 points 3 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.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 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?

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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 26 points 3 days ago

“Welcome to… Jurassic Farms!

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 13 points 2 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"

[–] captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can't wait for brontoburgers.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 2 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.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Would they taste like chicken, or like lizard?

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most birds don't taste like chicken though

[–] Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Not even all parts of a chicken taste the same.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"tastes just like chicken"

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[–] Lime66@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

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

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How do you call this species?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 33 points 3 days ago (4 children)
[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago

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

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ani are you groove-billed?

Are you groove-billed, Ani?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Mind tricks don't work. Only money!

Watto, tho.

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[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

All birds are.

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