Where is the banana? Much safer, for scale.
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2026
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The human ate it.
You wouldn't know the size of a pre-historic banana or even identify it as a banana anyway.
To your point… wild bananas:

Banana for scale:

Well that's definitely a banana, but what the fuck
Are the seeds even edible?
Eating them wont kill you but no, they aren’t really edible.
Flowering plants (including bananas) devolved long after non avian dinosaurs went extinct. That's why humans are used in these cases
That’s why humans are used in these cases
Now everything makes sense 😁
Prehistoric bananas were also vicious predators.
Seemed like a good idea at the time..?
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