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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dinosaurs got wiped out because they all got too cozy and complacent with their lives. Luckily that will never happen to humans

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bro penguins are literally alive

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      • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So are chickens and I can anecdotaly confirm that they lead very cozy lives. Mostly due to me pamperin them a lot.

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      • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I hate how people say birds are literally dinosaurs. That’s like saying homo erectus are still alive today.

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    • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i think it was more that they were all really big and couldn’t survive a massive resource restriction. we dont have the same problems, being omnivorous generalists who can eat pretty much anything. if something like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs happened to us a lot of us would die sure, but the species would survive. we could still get power from wind, dams, fossil fuels, and nuclear, and grow food indoors using grow lights. most people wouldnt make it but most likely enough would that wed still have a stable breeding population when the dust settled.

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      • somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wish we couldn’t survive it, and it looks to be a slow, painful burn out for us.

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  • kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would argue, that orcas are way scarier.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d argue sperm whales regularly wrestling colossal squids is also extremely badass.

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      • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I’m not even sure the animal depicted is a sperm whale.

        Looks like that little fellow

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livyatan

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    • HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      nbcnews.com/…/video-orcas-hunting-great-white-sha…

      www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/…/276233/

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  • lauha@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Op has never met cassowary in the wild.

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    • Johandea@feddit.nu ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      marine

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      • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Op has never met cassowary in the ocean.

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      • Klear@piefed.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Op has never met cassowary in the sea.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      they emu won a war, imagine how strong they would be if they had a nazy

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  • Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What about salt water crocodiles though?

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    • notabot@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Crocodiles aren’t descended from dinosaurs, they evolved along side them and outlasted them.

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      • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Doesn’t everything descent from everything else?

        What makes them not a dinosaur?

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Crocodiles aren’t dinosaurs, penguins are

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    • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re not dinosaurs.

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      • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Your butthole isn’t a dinosaur

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    • Klear@piefed.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The tears of them are wet.

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