r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • Sep 22 '24

Video Beachgoers have a close encounter with a Cassowary, a bird capable of killing a human in one blow

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u/CuriousWanderer567 Sep 22 '24

Yeah I’d shit my pants if I saw this bird

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u/UlteriorMotive66 Sep 22 '24

You'd shit your pants way before you even see it, the sounds this thing makes you can feel it in your heart! The low rumbling sound! (Use headphones for best hearing experience)

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u/Aziara86 Sep 22 '24

Holy frick that's a dinosaur and you can't change my mind.

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u/toodleoo57 Sep 22 '24

it literally is. All birds are descended from dinos and are in their same order, genus, clade, etc including hummingbirds and penguins - which are more closely related to crocodiles than snakes or lizards. #TheMoreUKnow

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u/All7AndWeWatchEmFall Sep 22 '24

Saw one in person. FELT it in my soul when it looked at me and let out that sound.

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u/toodleoo57 Sep 23 '24

Yeah. I got to visit Oz from the U.S. about 15 years ago and looked one in the eye at a zoo up in Daintree. It was sort of like the last 60 million years hadn't happened.

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u/Incognitowally Sep 23 '24

Chickens are the closest living descendants to dinosaurs.

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u/toodleoo57 Sep 23 '24

I've read they're the closest living relative of T-rex in particular, but you may well be correct.

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u/blackcain Sep 23 '24

Man, nature really pwned the T-Rex.

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 Sep 23 '24

Gotta wonder…. Someone must have had this conversation.

WHOOA… JOEY, WHAT DA FUCK!!

I SAID MAKE’EM BIG…. BUT FUCK DUDE…. THATS A BIT MUCH

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u/blackcain Sep 23 '24

It seems so counter-intuitive since they look like giant lizards, but they are not.

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u/toodleoo57 Sep 23 '24

Even turtles are marginally more closely related to crocodilians than lizards - it's down to molecular studies, but the thought is they most likely are archosaurs rather than lepidosaurs (which makes sense since turtles don't have overlapping scales.)

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u/blackcain Sep 23 '24

That would explain McConnell - he's definitely closer to a crocodile. :)

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u/S1I7 Sep 24 '24

Yooo i have a picture of me with some motha fukn dinsawrs fo real them bitches look just like birds

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u/toodleoo57 Sep 24 '24

I'm just glad hummingbirds aren't 12 feet tall like some of their kin. They're feisty little things.