Chagal4's Blog

I’ve never been one who loved dinosaurs. The idea of fifty foot lizards chasing my ass through the woods was just too much to be loading into the nightmare library. I was having enough trouble with “The Green Hornet” and “Inner Sanctum”  (O.K. don’t worry, those things won’t mean anything unless you’re over sixty.) I thought T.Rex was a cool name for an animal that had that many teeth though. (Good name for a rock band too.)

Like most people I find the evolution of life on this planet fascinating…and somehow the notion of dinosaurs being around for hundreds of thousands of years became the bench mark for evolutionary success. Of course they went away to become crude oil and I sometimes feel a twinge of weird when I step on the gas in my car…

I was not quite convinced that humans started out on this planet at all…Seems to me that the planet might have been chosen as a penal colony for bipeds from another solar system who did some really bad shit…and got banished from Eden. Then the species devolved and evolved in many directions until the current model perfected its killing skills and emerged at the top of the food chain…if you don’t count bacteria and viruses. So I’m not sure that “Lucy” and the neanderthals were progressive steps along the evolutionary highway…There could have been a higher order that fell on hard times and devolved to become neanderthals…Who says the evolutionary highway has to be a “one way street”? I mean, I look around these days and it seems like there’s plenty of evidence that our species has taken a step or two back. No? O.K. maybe not.

Anyway, I read a few years ago that the dinosaurs may not have gone completely extinct…and that many modern birds may have evolved from dinosaurs. Clever little bastards!! But really , have you ever looked closely at a turkey…or a buzzard? How about a pelican? Those things look prehistoric to me. I have a harder time imagining chickadees but maybe they came from tiny little dinosaurs.

The crows and chickadees were ranting this morning and woke me up…the fucking noise!!! and it got me thinking in this entirely unwanted direction. But it’s Friday morning and the latest nonsense from the political gang wars didn’t bear thinking about.

So if birds evolved from dinosaurs…what did fish evolve from?

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