Favorite extinct animals and why they died out.

[Thunderbird]

The dodo bird, because they where big fat retarded flightless pigeons, that tasted like chicken.

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Thunderbird

Moa's because they tast like chicken.

Now that is funny, just think about how popular bird meat is, like chicken, turkey, even ostrich. Now think about a dinosaur, birds are dinosaurs, so if we found an island with dinos on it we would probably eat them all

[Thunderbird]

The Great Auk because they where like penquins only slower and tasted like c...well you know.

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Pyrotex

I really like the semimegatherium. It was huge, but only in front. It's back legs were only half the size of the front ones, a feature probably due to the fact that semimegatherium lived only on chili peppers and had to take a poop really often.

It died out because they kept falling over backwards and couldn't get up.

Now we're into the spirit of things, I thought my terrible dactyl was a "dead" give away

[Moontanman]

Giant tortoises, they used to roam over every continent until humans showed up and then.... well they probably tasted like chicken......

[Thunderbird]

Originally Posted by Moontanman

Giant tortoises, they used to roam over every continent until humans showed up and then.... well they probably tasted like chicken......

When the Spaniards discovered the Galápagos Islands, they found crowds of turtles and iguanas on them—hence the name “Turtle” or “Galápagos Islands.” The iguanas—that grow so big and fat—have almost disappeared from Floreana but there are still many on Isabela. Land [sea?] turtles also come in constantly—increasing numbers here. They too are fat and taste so good—no chicken ever tasted better. Some of these creatures weigh as much as 150 (sic) pounds. They have long necks and smaller heads than turtles found elsewhere.

I've also heard between chicken and salmon. YUMMMY

[Pyrotex]

One of my favorite dinosaurs was the morphochromosaurus. It was about the size of a cow and a herbivore. Unfortunately, it tasted even better than chicken!! And, sadly, its spindly legs were evolved for wading through swamps, not running. Even though the swamps had since dried up, and the morphochromosauruses had learned to live on savannah-like grasslands.

On the lucky side, the MCsauruses had evolved an amazing ability to change the color of their skins. If they saw a predator on their left, then their left side took on the colors and shapes that they saw on their right side. In other words, what the predator saw was a perfect duplicate of the trees and bushes and sky on the other side of the MCsaurus. The predator couldn't see the MCsaurus AT ALL!!!

The geological record shows that soon after the MCsaurus evolved this capability, their numbers soared, as they had become effectively invisible to their predators. And to other herbivores. And even to each other! If it hadn't been for their exceptional sense of smell, they would have "bought the farm" immediately. But they didn't. Even then, their invisibility kept improving at such a rate, that their noses had to get bigger and bigger to enable them to find mates and... you know,... mate. This arms race -- well, it should be called a nose race, I guess -- continued until the MCsaurus had to be given a new name: schnozolasaurus.

The schnozolasaurus went extinct in one generation because their heads were so heavy, they couldn't lift them off the ground.

[mynah]

All those wonderful South American animals that were virtual copies of Old World horses, antelopes, etc., but were more closely related to sloths, anteaters and armadillos. I don't know why they went extinct, but Pyrotex gave me an idea there.

The sloth spends most of its life hanging upside down from trees and doing not much else. One can think of many ideas why it would go extinct: Forgetting to eat, accidentally mating with moss-covered logs (if it bothers at all), mistaking its kids for epiphytic cacti, etc. - but its toilet habits make it most vulnerable. Strangely, the sloth is very particular about where it goes to poop. Just as well it only poops once every eight days, because it takes all day to climb down its tree, relieve itself and climb back again. In that time, it is fair game for any passing jaguar or anaconda.

If the sloth is not extinct because of this, imagine what foolish habits its relatives must have had to die out?

I call this my Semi-Hibernation Induced Termination (S.H.I.T.) theory.

[Moontanman]

The biggest of all vegetarian dinosaurs, the Moronodon, it was driven to extinction by it's intellectual superiors, the ferns

[freeztar]

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