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fossilesque @mander.xyz

9mo ago

Evolution sucks

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Horses were tiny back then
- Okay but why is the first one on the right?
  
  Well, it's in sequence from the current one to the previous ones. We traced backwards through time.
- wait they were so cute
  
  Miniature horses are a thing today
- Why the troll face at the bottom
- 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.
- Who tf came up with those names?
  
  Greek speakers, mostly
- Equus

If you've ever lived with a bird, you know the size waned but the terror only grew
- I love both of mine, but damn do they not quit hahaha
- except for pidgeons, who are entirely satisfied with the development and demand more seeb and scritches
  
  I'll accept that. The exception that proves the rule. Never met a pigeon that I didn't like
- Gotta remind you they're dinosaurs.

I think about this when I see kiwi birds running and doing mighty kiwi roars at the sky.
- "Evolution was so scared of me it made me flightless to avoid global annihilation."
- ... Do you have footage of this?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8SdqOT_no0
  Behold the Kiwi, true heir to the throne of the dinosaurs!

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

Devolution confirmed

- Or the hatched ones.
  
  Incase anyone is curious.

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.
- same word, multiple meaning.

How I hated them in ark...

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