People who took the news of feathered dinosaurs like this:
And those who took it like this:
I hate it when people say “science ruined dinosaurs” as though dinosaurs are just some pop culture monster invention and not real things that existed and that we are continuing to make new discoveries about
Amen
Listen I don’t care if you think feathers on a dinosaur look stupid if a 9 ton apex predator is coming at you at 25 mph, you’re not going to laugh at its feathers. YOU’RE GOING TO HAUL ASS
Most of y’all are afraid of geese and they have feathers.
Imagine a 9 ton goose that’s about to fuck your shit up.
You mean like these?
Ah, the various forms of “terror bird”, the apex predator for roughly 40 million years-ish. Believed to use their beaks as blunt axes to crush the HELL out of prey trapped under their feet because they were not physically capable of the rapid side-to-side motion other animals use to shake their meals to death in their jaws.
Yeah, you’d shit yourself if this came honkin’ at you.
“You’re in the wrong neighborhood, college boy.”
WERE DODOS THAT BIG? I always just assumed they were like guinea fowl
y’all say feathers on a dinosaur doesn’t make it scary but no one wants to hold my parrot.
Progress of Day 258 since it was a lil more involved. I flip back and forth a lot on images and usually throw down the main colors just for reference before I block out. The more colorful the bird, the harder it is to make the colors seem uniform, but I try my best!
This year, as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Migratory
Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), our most important bird protection law is under
attack. Legislation in Congress (HR 4239), and a new interpretation of
the law by the administration, would end the ability to hold industries
accountable for bird deaths.
These proposals would prevent enforcement of “incidental” bird
deaths, removing incentives for companies to adopt practices that
protect birds from threats such as oil waste pits, and eliminating
penalties for companies that kill substantial numbers of birds,
including from large oil spills.
Very bad luck struck me the afternoon of 12/11/17. I was sitting on
my patio with Ripley like we do all the time, but this time she got
spooked really bad by something and took off. A gust of wind carried her
down the road to a nearby farm.
The next morning (12/12/17), my
roommate and I got up before sunrise and called to her from outside the
farm’s property line. Ripley called back and then flew toward my
apartment building at Sevona Westover Hills at around 8:15 AM. I spotted
her on a third-floor balcony just a couple apartments over from my
patio at 11:30, but when she saw me she tried to fly down and caught the
wind again, which carried her across the gorge to another set of
apartment buildings (between buildings 10 and 11) within the complex.
The leasing office put out a notice on their Facebook page, and I’m getting the word out to as many people as I can.
I’m extremely worried, because temperatures are supposed to dip down to
the mid-30s tonight, and a small parrot like Ripley might not be able
to handle those temperatures, especially if she hasn’t had any food.
If you’re in the Alamo Ranch area around Rogers Rd, 1604, Culebra Rd,
and Wiseman Blvd, please be on the lookout for my baby and spread the
word. She was flying around my apartment complex earlier, but I haven’t
seen her since she flew off at 11:30 this morning. She has no leg-bands.
Both wings are mostly clipped except for a couple feathers on the tips.
Responds to R2D2 sounds and other whistles.
I won’t stop walking
around and searching for her until she’s returned safely home. The best
chance of finding her is at sunrise and during the day. It will be
fruitless to search at night, as parrots will quietly roost somewhere
until morning. Please spread the word and share this information if you
can so that Ripley can come home.
PiraticOctopus 