The Off Topic Topic

[Razgovory]

Lightning knocked out my PC.

[Syt]

Today I learned that Basket Starfish exist. I'm not easily spooked, but this creeps me the hell out

https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/1jrfcvi/basket_starfish_have_so_many_branchesappendages/

 

[Josquius]

Rate the chickens on random criteria

https://clickens.chicken.pics/malevolent/77/13

[HVC]

After at least a 10,000 year pause the dire wolf has been brought back from extinction.   

It's a great example of convergent evolution, the dire wolf is an ancient North American canid that independently evolved into a superficially very similar animal as the grey wolf on account of the same sort of placement in the local ecosystem.

Not everything Americans do is cringe and lame.

Follow up by Hank

[celedhring]

After at least a 10,000 year pause the dire wolf has been brought back from extinction.   

It's a great example of convergent evolution, the dire wolf is an ancient North American canid that independently evolved into a superficially very similar animal as the grey wolf on account of the same sort of placement in the local ecosystem.

Not everything Americans do is cringe and lame.

The names are a bit cringe. At least they didn't name them after GoT dire wolves. 

[Syt]

The pedestrian traffic lights near the Haithabu (Hedeby ) viking museum has these figures.





This would have saved the British Isles so much grief.

[Josquius]

I eagerly wait the first "But officer, the light said pillaging was OK" defence.