Atrabiliousaurus

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[–] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year 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.

[–] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 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.

 

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

[–] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

1000 as of earlier today.

[–] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 10 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.

But they've really begun leaning pretty heavily into the "we make stoner food" shtick

Snoop's Munchie Meal lol.

[–] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Ska 'za? Nah brah.

And if it tastes sweet you might have diabetes

R.I.P. Patrice O'Neal.

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.

Yeah probably true. I only thought to look it up because I knew active and passive sonar was a thing.

 
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