My attempt at an explanation

• Ducks are dinosaurs: Ducks, as with all birds, evolved from theropods and are considered living dinosaurs.

• Horses walk on middle fingers: Ancestors of modern horses have 5 toes the size of a small dog. Eventually they evolved away the other toes and only the middle toe remain.

• Bees are crustaceans: Crustacea is not a single branch in the tree of life but a collection of multiple branches (i.e. paraphyletic). If we pick a point and said everything after that is considered the same group, then by necessity we have to put bees (and all hexapoda) and what we traditionally call crustaceans into a single group. That group would be pancrustacea. Is that exactly the same as saying bees are crustaceans? Are jackdaws crows? I’ll let you decide.

• Pterodactyls are fish: Fish is also not a single branch. By the same token, if we want to put what we traditionally counted as fish (such as sharks, carps, and lungfishes) together as a single group, we have to include all vertebrates (which includes pterodactyls, us, whales, etc.)

• Redwood are algae: I’m not too sure about this one. The wikipedia page for algae say that it excludes the land plants (embryophytes) which redwoods are part of.

• Humans are part virus: Viruses have the ability inject and splice their genetic material into our genome and have our cells do the cloning for them. Usually it is not passed on to the next generation. Apparently an ancient strain of virus from millions of years ago incorporated themselves into our genome and our germ cells (sperm and egg) and can be passed on to the next generation.

I just got laid off

I’ve been to 2 weddings in a row where they had “Bye Bye Bye” I don’t think people really care about the lyrics

I was thinking of magic speed boosts and magical hindrance to your opponents in a swim race but if there’s a board game version of water polo you can clock people in the head and cast magic I’ll take that too lol

I first read it as “enchanted” and for a fleeting moment I was in a world of magical swimmers until I read further and realised what it actually was. It was just like when I first came across “fantasy football” and thought it was about orcs and wizards playing American football.

We need a Blood Bowl of swimming.

When I was in Singapore the first PE class of every year is to record our height and weight. And also as a fat kid I would get enrolled into “fat camp” where we have to come to school early for a run. It was great.

I do something similar too! In my dnd game I treat draconic as this ancient uber conservative language and lizard folks speak reptilic, a descendant of draconic. One of my PC knows draconic so I always describe reptilic to sound simplified and with weird accent to him. The party recently came across some troglodytes and I read that the language is related to draconic so when I played the troglodytes speaking I basically went caveman-speak for the PC that knows draconic haha.

Ah, my bad

And this post is about ancestors of ferns which are unknown so I’m not sure what are you suggesting

It’s impossible to compare genetics from fossils and we can’t study ancient long dead species besides fossil records for the most part.

I think it means we don’t know what the ancestors of those plants are/what they evolved from. They just kinda showed up in the fossil record.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

Ice Cube flag

I’m going to guess that at the time loud speakers started appearing everywhere and she/the author is sick of it

I feel like King fits more. OPM is depressed Superman, but King is literally taking all the credit and get out of deadly situations alive by being at the right place at the right time

Can confirm. The raccoons are almost ready for deployment after the Canada Goose Air Wing gets their feather grown in after spring

Funny because there’s a similar saying in Cantonese 愛靚唔愛命 (I want beauty instead of my life) lol

It’s not forced, just a coincidence. There are loads of homophones in Chinese so it’s easy to make puns like that.

In Canada, The United States, and Mexico, the advertised octane rating is the average of the RON and the MON, called the Anti-Knock Index (AKI). It is often written on pumps as (R+M)/2. AKI is also sometimes called PON (Pump Octane Number).

Because of the 8 to 12 octane number difference between RON and MON noted above, the AKI shown in Canada and the United States is 4 to 6 octane numbers lower than elsewhere in the world for the same fuel.

There’s a table in the wiki article that shows the equivalence of different systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating

In Chinese watermelon is called 西瓜(west melon) and wintermelon is 冬瓜 (winter melon) but the first word sounds like 東 (east). Pumpkins are called 南瓜 (south melon) and in some places a certain squash is called 北瓜 (north melon)