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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Crewman@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The more I learn about giant ground sloths, the cooler they become.

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    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was with you until I found out about the present day sloths and the latrines.

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i wonder what sloth skin coffee tastes like

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    • skeptomatic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The best part of waking up, is sloth skin in your cup 🎶

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    • Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It was so good they were hunted to extinction 😥

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      • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        😥

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    • beebarfbadger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The tar pits are that experiment on a grand scale.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Armadillos: am I a joke to you?

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I looked it up and xenarthra is a super order and armadillos are in xenarthra with the rest of the ones I was thinking of.

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh neat, TIL!

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      • nBodyProblem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What about the pangolin?

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  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That ruler is really odd. Why start at zero on one side, and not the other?

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    • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because the numbers are upside down, if you flip the ruler over so you can read it, you can measure from thatb same side.

      But I agree, it’s a bit weird, I’d prefer both zeros on the same side

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      • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m not sure you see what I am talking about. The ruler starts at 8 for the inch side. It clearly shows all 4 sides in the image. The more I look at it, though, I am suspecting that it isn’t a real ruler but a piece of paper that was cut with scissors.

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If both sides were the same scale, flipping makes sense. But with two different scales… no sense is made.

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    • AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s how the imperial measurement system works. Don’t try to understand it.

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  • weariedfae@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dope. I love the tar pits. I only visited once as a kid and would love to go back.

    I was visiting my grandma and she had to pick me up at LAX. We stayed somewhere in LA overnight and in the morning she asked if there was anything touristy I wanted to do before we drove to where she lived. I emphatically chose the La Brea Tar Pits! I was 14? That sounds right.

    It rocked. I have a cool shirt that doesn’t fit in my pile of cool shirts that need to become a quilt.

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  • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    wait what was eating giant ground sloths?

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    • idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Saber toothed tigers

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Once they developed the armor, probably nothing which let them grow to the giant size.

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    • Sizzler@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Read the post… Tar pits… TAR PITS

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  • maculata@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I didn’t have dermal ossicles on my bingo card for 2024.

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is awesome but…where meme?

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In a Dawkins book.

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