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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 days ago

It looks like it was made in Spore

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Okay so is this photoshopped or what's going on here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Also, repeated liposuction and no exercise.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Looks like a turtle without its shell. Are the scientists sure it didnt have a shell made of cartilage thats been lost to time?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't know where this particular fella fits in the history, but turtles evolved from similar quadruped reptiles. Basically, their ribs evolved flat and wide so that their chests could support them better while burrowing tunnels. That turned into the turtle plastron.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Huh the more u know

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If turtle shells were on the inside.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Turtle shells are already on the inside. The entire surface of their shells is skin!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

So they're more naked than I thought...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I feel like this is one of those models we're completely wrong about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Yeah this looks like a stupid degree of shrink wrapping of the neck.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's like a turtle without the turtle part

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You know what, I feel like the shell part of the turtle is best represented by the "turt" part of the world turtle. It just looks the way "turt" sounds.

So a turtle without it's shell I think should start to be called a "le" (pronounced like in the world turtle), which represents very well, as a sound, a "turt"-less turtle

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This comment deals 10 points psychic damage

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I also just noticed that the first "t" could be the legs and the tail of the turtle, while the "l" are the front legs and the "e" is the head and mouth.

Meaning that the shell part would actually be "urt".
More research is going to be needed to figure out this one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

we probably just have the bones of the weirdest-looking critter in the species

uncanny resemblance

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is he voiced by danny devito?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I can picture it now. An Ice Age movie where Sid, Manny, and Diego are hanging around a bar and this chonky boy shows up out of nowhere and makes an outrageous claim. Queue "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" music.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Looks like Elon musk as ~~a reptile~~ more of a reptile.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

It's shaped like a cheeseburger. I'll call it Americanis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I don't understand how they used it correctly and then didn't

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

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