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From Carnivore to Herbivore
smooth wombat wrote in to mention an a recent discovery in the field of evolutionary biology. From the article: "A surprising discovery in Utah has paleontologists scratching their heads and asking: Why would a carnivore evolve a herbivorous diet? The species, christened Falcarius utahensis, belongs to a dinosaur group called the therizinosauroids. These are mostly thought to have been plant eaters. But the recently discovered fossil, the most primitive therizinosauroid found so far, seems to have survived on a mixed diet of meat and vegtables...The switch to vegetarianism is surprising, says Paul Barrett, who studies dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum in London. The therizinosauroids belong to a larger group of dinosaurs known as theropods, and many of these are known to have been excellent at catching a meaty meal. "
Maybe the designer wasn't so intelligent after all, seeing as how he kept changing his mind.
After all, I am strangely colored.
The next time somebody waxes on about the virtues of the Atkin's Diet I can tell them that even the dinosaurs got sick of it.
Making the moon less necessary since 1998.
I didn't know PETA has been around that long...
goD put that omnivore fossil out there to confuse scientists and test the faith of evangelists. hE had so much free time after creation that he wanted to play some tricks and enjoy looking at the morons that hE created for hiS amusement.
Am I the only one that saw the headline and thought of a new FBI internet tap with a friendly plant-like image?
The way I look at it, I'm a vegetarian, but cows are part of my extended digestive tract.
XML causes global warming.
As the top level predator (excluding man, of course) in Africa the male lion can afford to snooze away most of the day while his female does most of the work. No different from humans in western civ.
Obviously, Falcarius utahensis got a girlfriend.
Tomato and spinach pizza, wtf.
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Pandas...Nature's koalas
No, I think he is saying Lions are farmers.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
So you're saying you eat bullshit? Are you a lawyer? :)
Have you ever seen a cow go, "OH My God! There's a ladybug on that grass, I'm not eating it!"
Yes, as a matter of fact I have. Many times. Except in their dialect it comes out as "Moooo Moo Mo Mooooo Moo Mooo MooMoo".
Table-ized A.I.
Apparently you haven't met some of the potatoes they served at school cafeteria back when I was in primary school...
"Potatoes don't run fast or put up much of a fight"
Thats what *you* think. Did you ever live under socialism in Soviet Russia?
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
I know that that's why I became a vegetarian, and what's good enough for me was probably good enough for dinosaurs.
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
Ok. I admit to being wrong. Carnivores *DO* eat carnivores.
I would, however, like to point out where I got the idea from. An old girlfriend of mine claimed that oral sex was always better if you were going down on a vegetarian. Her theory was that anything coming out of the body of a carnivore is going to taste terrible. The sperm/meat of a herbivore is much more delicious.
It sounded like a reasonable explanation at the time.
This sucks. My vegetarian friends will soon be telling me that the therizinosauroids would still be alive today if they hadn't started eating meat.
There went breakfast.
Now you tell me. I just flushed a snack!
I am a believer of momentum and curves.