Whales came onto land, said fuck this and walked right back into the sea. It is widely regarded as a good decision in whale culture.

Or metamorphosis.

That's actually what it's called in German. Never thought about the implications of the "X evolved to Y" screens.

And would have avoided so much pearl-clutching from right-wing fundamentalist busybodies.

God damn were the 90s stupid.

My father once made the mistake of letting himself be surroudee by chicken while having a flesh wound.

A coma is completely unecessary.

I have seen chickens eating chickens.

When I was younger, I used to throw grasshoppers into pens full of baby chicks where they would tear the grasshoppers limb from limb. Also, rats used to live in the henhouse but they don't anymore because the hens killed all the rats.

The title and the meme are correct. Many people think that evolution means a line of becoming bigger and physically stronger and having more powerful offensive capabilities and smarter and faster etc. But in reality evolution can just as easily mean becoming smaller, weaker, dumber, and slower

What you said isn't an "upgrade" either. It is just adapting to the changes.

Well, "proto-chickens", let's say.

Also known as red junglefowl.

Nooooo! Not another fire/fighting starter!

Yes

i'd rather selectively breed ostriches into rideable flying dragons.

Chickens are already dinosaurs. So...yes?

No need to be so dramaetic about it.

U sure? Because dromaesaurus lived during the end cretaceous, birds were already a thing. Aurornis, which can be considered the earliest known bird, lived almost 80 million years before dromaesaurus. Even if you meant the dromaesaurid clade, birds aren't usually classified in it, and possibly predate it.

Tho it's true that birds are closer to dromaesaurus than to T-Rex, as birds and romaesaurids are part of the maniraptora clade.

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It's funny, I remember being 7 years old and thinking two things.

1. T-rex feet look very similarly to chicken feet, they must be descended from the T-Rex.

2. I'm 7, there's no way this is true.

I immediately wrote it off as being incorrect. There's no way people actually believe this right?

Yup, the T. rex is just extinct, chickens are the closest thing genetically speaking (or one of the closest, I'm not sure).

Same reason why humans don't actually descend from monkeys, both monkeys and humans descend instead from a common ancestor that no longer exists. This is why, IMO, Digimon could be a better representation of evolution than Pokémon, since one Digimon can evolve into many different forms, so that kitten could become a fridge, but also a dragon or a knight with cannons, depending on the evolutionary line.

Then again, I doubt any of these were intended as a realistic portrayal of anything at all, least of all the theory of evolution.

Well, there's Azurill. That was an actual glitch that happened due to DVs being a factor for gender, if I remember correctly.

That's a puma, not a lioness.

Though you might still be right. I'm not sure if there are clear visual indicators in pumas.