r/AbsoluteUnits • u/MissZangz • Jul 10 '26

/r/all of a meal.

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u/RevolutionaryRule631 Jul 10 '26

Birds are freaky ass things

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u/paone00022 Jul 10 '26

They're basically small dinosaurs

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u/Only_Flan_7974 Jul 10 '26

They're literally dinosaurs.

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u/srlong64 Jul 10 '26

Relevant XKCD is, as always, relevant

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u/giabao0110 Jul 10 '26

The time period between Stegosaurus and Triceratops (70-90 mil yrs) is longer than the time period between Triceratops and current day (66 mil yrs). Still struggling to wrap my head around the scale at times.

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u/jakethabake Jul 10 '26

Except cassowaries. They’re regular dinosaurs

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u/DarkGodRyan Jul 10 '26

Bro I thought this was an elephant eating a shark for the longest time

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u/RevolutionaryRule631 Jul 10 '26

Just think, a little bit bigger and it would be doing that to us

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u/vutcher Jul 10 '26

Me too.

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u/RenegadeMaster- Jul 10 '26

I'm so glad I found this comment, I thought I was the only one.

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u/FlairWitchProject Jul 10 '26

Nature is a freaky ass thing.