xkcd #3300: Tyrannosaurus

a month ago by xkcd bot to c/xkcd

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Many of the smaller dinosaurs seem to have largely preyed on housecats.

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Atelopus-zeteki 25 points a month ago

Where is the banana? Much safer, for scale.

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tal 22 points a month ago

The human ate it.

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Ooops 11 points a month ago

You wouldn't know the size of a pre-historic banana or even identify it as a banana anyway.

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atomicbocks 11 points a month ago

To your point… wild bananas:

wild banana, photo from Wikipedia

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Ooops 9 points a month ago

Banana for scale:

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Naz 4 points a month ago

Well that's definitely a banana, but what the fuck

Are the seeds even edible?

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atomicbocks 6 points a month ago

Eating them wont kill you but no, they aren’t really edible.

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lugal 2 points a month ago

Flowering plants (including bananas) devolved long after non avian dinosaurs went extinct. That's why humans are used in these cases

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Ooops 3 points a month ago

That’s why humans are used in these cases

Now everything makes sense 😁

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Pronell 8 points a month ago

Prehistoric bananas were also vicious predators.

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JohnnyEnzyme 5 points a month ago

Seemed like a good idea at the time..?

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crispbacon99 1 point a month ago

The future with AI learning

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