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xkcd #3300: Tyrannosaurus

Title text:

Many of the smaller dinosaurs seem to have largely preyed on housecats.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3300/

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Where is the banana? Much safer, for scale.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 21 points 1 month ago

The human ate it.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You wouldn't know the size of a pre-historic banana or even identify it as a banana anyway.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

To your point… wild bananas:

wild banana, photo from Wikipedia

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago

Banana for scale:

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well that's definitely a banana, but what the fuck

Are the seeds even edible?

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Eating them wont kill you but no, they aren’t really edible.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Flowering plants (including bananas) devolved long after non avian dinosaurs went extinct. That's why humans are used in these cases

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 3 points 4 weeks ago

That’s why humans are used in these cases

Now everything makes sense 😁

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Prehistoric bananas were also vicious predators.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

Seemed like a good idea at the time..?

[–] crispbacon99@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

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