[-] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The wikipedia article Polydactyly in stem-tetrapods has some explanations on how we ended up with 5 fingers and toes.

The gist of it is that tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrate animals) evolved from a fish similar to a lobe-finned fish that had 5 sets of bones in each of its fins that evolved into fingers and toes. Some tetrapods have subsequently lost digits but the basal state was five.

There's a book, Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin that's full of this kind of stuff. Highly recommend.

[-] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Reminded me of the band Goblin Cock (NSFW).

[-] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

It's just a name, like the Forbidden Month or the Month of No Return, all the months have names like that in the Season of Terror.

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The bigger ducklings are almost 2 months old and the smaller ones are a couple weeks younger.

[-] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

5th person in line is a mile away on the side of the road outside the airport.

[-] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

1000 as of earlier today.

[-] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

From the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency website

Hawaiʻi has the largest single integrated Outdoor Siren Warning System for Public Safety in the world. The all-hazard siren system can be used for a variety of both natural and human-caused events; including tsunamis, hurricanes, dam breaches, flooding, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, terrorist threats, hazardous material incidents, and more.

They test them here every month too. Shameful they didn't sound them when needed the most.

[-] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

But they've really begun leaning pretty heavily into the "we make stoner food" shtick

Snoop's Munchie Meal lol.

[-] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Ska 'za? Nah brah.

[-] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah probably true. I only thought to look it up because I knew active and passive sonar was a thing.

[-] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats

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[-] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Clams and oysters aren't even arthropods, they're mollusks. Not bug like at all.

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