Tag: DINOSAURS

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people are always like “birds are so everyday but sometimes you can really tell theyre descended from dinosaurs” but like ,

have you ever paid really close attention to birds?? birds are like fifty times more weird and fucked up than what we know about the vast majority of dinosaurs. dinosaurs seem like they were more or less regular animals except big. birds are like horrible little aliens. like. people act like birds are normal but geese have teeth on their tongues and ducks have corkscrew genitals and woodpeckers have retractable prehensile tongues that they keep in their nostrils and hoatzins are hatched with fingers on their wings that drop off as they mature and that’s just, like, the stuff that’s unusual for birds? not even just the stuff that birds come with as standard, which i promise you is universally just as bad, honestly, like, have you ever taken a good look at feathers???? theyre fucked up. bird legs? fucked up. birds flapping their wings like huge weird bugs? FUCKED UP

BEAKS? WHAT THE HELL HONESTLY

like, i will acknowledge that for example many mammals are completely fucking ridiculous, like, for example, moles, moles are awful, but thats just one kind of mammal. same with reptiles, tortoises are extremely messed up but most reptiles are basically animal shaped? whereas, birds are universally horrifying. i think about this every time i spend half an hour kissing my bird on the head.

new rule: youre not allowed to reblog this post and tag it “i hate birds”. youre only allowed to reblog this post if you love birds and cherish them and want to be their friend

Alright! Look at this lil fucker

THOSE FEET COULD KILL A MAN

Wanna know how mum carries him?????

Bam! All inside aboard the mum bus

This other thinG? HOW ELSE IS IT SUPPOSED TO SIT??

WAHT

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I love birds

@tuuungsten – I feel like you might appreciate birds

@lotsandlotsofbirds

I wholeheartedly agree with the message of this post, but the more we learn about dinosaurs, the more we understand why birds are so WEIRD.

Fig. 1

Deinocheirus mirificus

by Andrey Atuchin

Fig. 2

Therizinosaurus cheloniformus

by Mark Witton

Fig. 3

Sinosauropteryx primus

by Chuang Zhao and Lida Xing

(Note: We know these guys really had these rad colors, because we’ve found pigments in their protofeathers!)

Fig. 4

Yi qi

by Emily Willoughby

Fig.6

Pantydraco

by  Ceri Thomas aka alphynix

Conclusion: Dinosaurs were really weird, and they passed it on to birds.

HERE WE GO, WEIRD SAURISCHIANS.

Figure 7. Chilesaurus diegosuarezi. 

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Figure 8. Amargasaurus cazaui.

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Figure 9. Brachytrachelopan mesai.

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Figure 10. Nigersaurus taqueti.

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Figure 11. Majungasaurus crenatissimus.

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Figure 12. Limusaurus inextricabilis.

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Figure 13. Mamenchisaurus youngi.

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Figure 14. Spinophorosaurus nigeriensis.

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Figure 15. Titanosauridae spp.

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Figure 16. Alvarezsauridae spp.

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Figure 17. Spinosaurus aegyapticus.

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Figure 18. Concavenator corcovatus.

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Okay but seriously half of these are real life Pokemon I swear

Oh birds. Thank you for being birds. ❤️❤️❤️