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Now that the dust has settled, did dunkchuds learn to cope with picrel or did they move onto basedfacing over other marine life?
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>>4786187
Wait so they were bite sized after all? Kinda sucks
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>>4786187
I was never really disappointed with the downscale. The skull is the only real draw it has. All the tanky and downright odd design choices they usually display with were wishful thinking to begin with.
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>>4786196
I actually like the short chunky version more, I think the stubby body nicely underlines the machine-like proportions of the head.
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>>4786187
That's still a pretty fucking big fish
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>>4786187
/an/ still has yet to show me one fish that has ever had these body proportions. Long dunk still my pick
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>>4786254
Sorry, the Science is settled.
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>>4786187
Now I like it more, and I believe the main attraction for Dunkling has always been the head/skull
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the downscale doesn't stand under scrutiny
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>>4786187
I still firmly believe it was the janky illustration used that turned most people off. Because it looks mildly acceptable in almost every other place except the original paper.
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>>4786187
>this is your brain on evolution.
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>>4786254
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>>4786254
Piranha
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>>4786254
Salmon shark
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>>4786392
Pelegiac brainless retard that eats plastic bags regularly
>>4786401
Relatively small scavenger revolved a thick body as not to be water by the 900 other fish that are bigger than it in the Amazon.
>>4786403
Needs to regulate them, easier to do with more mass

None of these explain why an apex predator, that needs to catch its prey, would be built like a fucking blood parrot. I recognize that fish were probably much slower that early on, but cmon. Water physics still wired the same.
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>>4786254
grouper
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>>4786403
little buddy :D
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>>4786403
What a wimpy looking creature
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>>4786254
this is such a bizarre way to think
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>>4786461
dunks were obviously scavengers. all the evidence points to that basic fact.
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>>4786187
Why did they make the skull smaller even tho it has been known for years?
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>>4786652
I wouldn't call it thinking exactly
but it is weird enough that you can ID the person expressing it every time. Like a toddler trying to argue with grownups. Too dumb to realize what he's doing wrong.
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>>4786461
>None of these explain why an apex predator, that needs to catch its prey, would be built like a fucking blood parrot
The one from the paper is just weirdly shaped and unstreamlined for some reason. Something like a tuna-dunk would be more realistic



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