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You just drew Nessie.

Unrelated: Glad to see you in the wild. Thanks for all the specific, geeky, thought-provoking and insightful laughs over the years.

Oh awesome, a basilisk

considering the pattern, wouldn't they have evolved to get even bigger legs and tinier arms? so...

nesse

Dang, I hope this doesn't "come true." For some "countries." All-this because (of a relative few) people insisting upon knowing - something-like - *ahem* . "'Original "biological 'sex'"' '"Before"-"even" birth'" ..! (and so - any real - consciousness).

snake, snaaaake, oh, it's a snake!

Tsuchinoko Real.

I won't spoil the fun by pointing out that anagenesis doesn't always result in further changes to highly derived character states—e.g. "living fossils" like coelacanth, lungfish, horseshoe crab, lamprey & turtles have all pretty much stayed the same for, in some cases, 100s of millions of years. 🤓

Black Holes. Wrex everything. In the. Universe(-eventually? ).

Good one, maybe back to amoeba soon?

You don't think the more powerful legs would have evolved into crab claws?

Would that be "devol-ution" ..? Or...?? Diss'ing. All solution's???

T-rec is snek

Wheels?

It's an anaconda

It needs the last step...Republican.

So the Loch Ness Monster is actually a T-Rex.

".. the One with the waggity Tail..." ("How Much For That Doggie In the Window?").

Does he live in Loch Ness ?

Is that Nessi??

It's the Gourmand!

Wait, I had a doodle for this: potato.horse/p/6R2qrF49N8...

The T in T. Rex is for Tsuchinoko, turns out.

Hahahahahaha!

Either Nessie or the most terrifying snake ever

Lock Ness monster???

Oh look, it’s the Cucumber from Monster Hunter.

Octagon-Us. "Wrecks."

So _that's_ where titanoboa came from!

G-

Tsuchinoko Rex

It’s a negative correlation between jaw-size and forelimb size - not some grand leg reduction over time.

😆 it’s Nessie!

My secret hypothesis

Today's chicken are descendants of TRex

Maybe they would just turn into really big flightless birds who knows

He became a snake! We just have to find the missing link! Just like with humans!

It doesn't work like that.

I mean why speculate when we actually know what happened @ryannorth.ca

Seen this Before ! 😂. Don't forget "reptiles, before," so "salamanders" (or-something), near-shore "fish" .. so yes "fish" ... " 😇 'y chemosynthetic autotrophic volcanic vent bacteria-Man!" . . . . "Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny." (Unless that's fliipped 🙃 😇 ).

wait so the egg did come first 🔥

That explains the loch Ness monster

Dlimbing, "the 'evolutionary "ladder"'." (I don't even know if that was ever a valid metaphor, that much). Space or sea.. space or See...

Convergent snake evolution

comically large snake

Well yeah, cetaceans exist because of that mechanism

The current one looks like Nessy

Dolphins are mammals in the ocean

quack! quack! honnnnk.

1) Swith to aquatic habitat. 2) Major droughs and desertification across globe destroyed these habitats. 3) "There is not much difference between water andsand locomotion!"

Very interesting.

Doesn't it technically go extinct in this graph too?

And thats how snakes were born

reject trex become snek

Love this!

tsuchinoko real

He evolved so you could have mcnuggets

back pedal

'bove they say "carcinization" . Carbon = ("'sign' of") Cancer.

So does that mean that 300 million years ago, the T. rex ancestors were spiders?

Loch Ness monster?

T-Rex’s became chickens. True story

" ... " 2 /2 that Garden of Eat'in' . "Taste(s)(d) like chicken." (Which're Dino's. , originally. "Cut another 'piece' of[f? ] 'the "dinosaur"'," for a 7th Expression).

It wouldn’t surprise me if the t-Rex evolved into a goose. rawr!🪿 🤣😉

Crocodog?

Evolution had goals.

A snake with a lot of teeth.

Nerfed by evolution

Maybe that’s where we get the dragon! 🐉

"'The "right"' to '"bore'd" arms'" ? ".. In a 'well-"regular, er -regulated" herd "militia"'" ??

And that's how Nessie came to be.

and /or. (Non- "de- ," for example) Evol-ution.

Reminds me a bit of Shin Godzilla’s first form.

There are no snekified birds.

Tsuchinoke!

They'd evolve into danger noodles.

It looks a little like the Loch Ness monster

Nessie?!

Clearly a Loch ness monster 😉

Boatrex

So an orca?

We couldda had a luck dragon. Thanks, Obama.

Loch Ness Monster is an evolved T Rex confirmed

My six year old is offended on behalf of the T. Rex.

Where did you study prehistoric reptiles? Attica?

Extra-amput-ation(s) ?! x-T.re ?!? Wholly floor-gon, er -tonguing. ", Flatman" ! (Or "Worman?" No, not with two "A" 's ).

So the meteor didn't cause the dinosaurs extinction, evolving into birds did.

It's called a crocodile, and soon to a crocidin't

"Don't listen to that Grant guy! I most certainly want to be fed rather than have to hunt; put the food straight in my mouth."

So the t. rex evolved into the mythical tsuchinoko. 🤔

Big snek

Where's the Chickens phase?

Is that Dune 3?

sea-rex

Tyrannosaurus snex

I used to catch legless lizards as a child in Houston.

Randall, man, you should stick to Physics!

Today -

.. - 'ing big, pair o' . LEGS. Dunno if LEGO(E)S. Or LEGO (for - exactly - two). (Since you mention that. " 'Dan' 'Quayle [not Quail] ' " ? ).

How much more million years to become a crab?

It is known.

So big snake with lots of teeth?

T-Rex would be seriously challenged.

Please project that further into the future?

As pro-pose'd. A-bove (no bovine intended, nor black - bore - [though "black.." such] holes /patches).