Friday, July 17, 2020

Tumblr Thread: The Cold-Blooded Freak Devil Cave Goat


Tumblr looked at this evolutionary dead-end of a forward-eye-facing cold-blooded cave goat and decided: "good." Sometimes tumblr gets ahold of some biology or history knowledge and extrapolates the ever-loving reality out of it like when they went full mythological science on dragon evolution. For another interesting learning experience here's Tumblr's thread on Kudzu, the monster plant waging war with everything.

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Text - RE tilthat Follow TIL a cave goat that went extinct approx. 5,000 years ago is the first known mammal to have become cold-blooded. Their bone growth rate is unlike any other mammal, and more similar to crocodiles in showing slow and adaptive rates to environmental temperature. via http://ift.tt/2vtQOYg r-evolution-aries Follow The goat's binomial name is Myotragus balearicus. It was kind of an oddball in a lot of other ways, too, an example being that it had forward-facing eyes, giving it

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Dinosaur - Here's what its skull looked like, btw. (By Didier Descouens - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Skeleton - creepsandcrawlers Follow can't believe we missed out on hte fucked up crocodile goat. :( thylacineshrine that was the devil shoresoftheshadowlands Follow

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Text - wingleader Follow What the what ohnoagremlin Follow having a bad time picturing what a goat with forward facing eyes would look like devilishdescent Follow

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Vertebrate - devilishdescent Follow it went extinct because anything that saw it instinctively wanted to kill it

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