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

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[–] Ooops@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

To your point… wild bananas:

wild banana, photo from Wikipedia

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

Banana for scale:

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

Are the seeds even edible?

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

That’s why humans are used in these cases

Now everything makes sense 😁