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Evolution sucks (mander.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] lzbz@programming.dev 93 points 6 months ago

Horses were tiny back then

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

Okay but why is the first one on the right?

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 points 6 months ago

Well, it's in sequence from the current one to the previous ones. We traced backwards through time.

[-] lethargic_lemming@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

wait they were so cute

[-] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago

Miniature horses are a thing today

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

Miss you with the greatest passion

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Why the troll face at the bottom

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago

Who tf came up with those names?

[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Greek speakers, mostly

[-] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago

Equus is latin but the rest are greek from what I can tell

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Jimbo@yiffit.net 2 points 6 months ago

Equus

[-] ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 84 points 6 months ago

If you've ever lived with a bird, you know the size waned but the terror only grew

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

I love both of mine, but damn do they not quit hahaha

[-] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago

Gotta remind you they're dinosaurs.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago

except for pidgeons, who are entirely satisfied with the development and demand more seeb and scritches

[-] ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I'll accept that. The exception that proves the rule. Never met a pigeon that I didn't like

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 46 points 6 months ago

[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Lol I was expecting this to be the last panel

[-] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago

Avenging their ancestors.

[-] Belzebubulubu@mujico.org 5 points 6 months ago

OMG WTF

[-] retrospectology@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

I think about this when I see kiwi birds running and doing mighty kiwi roars at the sky.

[-] bazus1@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

"Evolution was so scared of me it made me flightless to avoid global annihilation."

[-] boogetyboo@aussie.zone 4 points 6 months ago

... Do you have footage of this?

[-] retrospectology@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8SdqOT_no0

Behold the Kiwi, true heir to the throne of the dinosaurs!

[-] boogetyboo@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago

Omg thank you this. The way it runs away with its hands in its pockets afterwards.

[-] bazus1@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I appreciate the redirect. My Northern-hemisphere search only found the peep-peep calls. That vid there is a final warning to his foes.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Haagel@lemmings.world 7 points 6 months ago

Devolution confirmed

[-] BlasphemicMantis@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

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.