Atrabiliousaurus

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The wikipedia article Polydactyly in stem-tetrapods has some explanations on how we ended up with 5 fingers and toes.

The gist of it is that tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrate animals) evolved from a fish similar to a lobe-finned fish that had 5 sets of bones in each of its fins that evolved into fingers and toes. Some tetrapods have subsequently lost digits but the basal state was five.

There's a book, Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin that's full of this kind of stuff. Highly recommend.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Reminded me of the band Goblin Cock (NSFW).

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's just a name, like the Forbidden Month or the Month of No Return, all the months have names like that in the Season of Terror.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You Can't Stump the Trump (Volume 4).

It was all fun and games and centipedes and 420 sniper headshot dubstep memes. And then shit got real.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The words of the prophets are written on the facebook walls....

 

The bigger ducklings are almost 2 months old and the smaller ones are a couple weeks younger.

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

5th person in line is a mile away on the side of the road outside the airport.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

1000 as of earlier today.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

From the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency website

Hawaiʻi has the largest single integrated Outdoor Siren Warning System for Public Safety in the world. The all-hazard siren system can be used for a variety of both natural and human-caused events; including tsunamis, hurricanes, dam breaches, flooding, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, terrorist threats, hazardous material incidents, and more.

They test them here every month too. Shameful they didn't sound them when needed the most.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Ska 'za? Nah brah.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And if it tastes sweet you might have diabetes

R.I.P. Patrice O'Neal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wasn't trying to suggest that, just thought it was funny that there's a pic of a cute topless chick and people are all interested in the scenery. But yeah, other pic I saw was from Oahu and this looks like somewhere in the Hawaii Kai to Makapu'u area to me, probably Sandy Beach cause the park and hills and trees match pretty well.

Sandy Beach is where Obama went bodysurfing when he was President, dangerous as fuck, loads of spinal injuries there from people getting piledrived by the shorebreak. Really fun though.

 
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