PieFed DKEvidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia
www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2lpyrnjleeo
The egghells belonged to a long-extinct group of crocodiles known as mekosuchines, who lived in inland waters when Australia was part of Antarctica and South America.
Co-author Prof Michael Archer said “drop crocs” were a “bizarre idea” but some were “perhaps hunting like leopards - dropping out of trees on any unsuspecting thing they fancied for dinner”.
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SquigglezJesus, why use an AI-generated photo? They’re fuckin BBC, they could have paid an artist to do a quick sketch or something.
But honestly I’m more annoyed over how THAT’S the generation they went with. Like the article specifically mentions that ancient crocs could have perched in trees and they DONT generate one with a CROC *IN A* TREE?
Ultimate form of laziness. Probably just typed in “drop-croc” in the prompt and used the first one it shat out.
Just imagine if those exist today.
They do, but people think they’re a species of bear
It’s impossible to get data, because nobody has ever survived a drop-bear attack
They literally just discovered that they had giant stick bugs in their trees. Who tf knows what else is up there