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What is the most interesting evolutionary adaptation in your
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The penis.
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>>2005533
A phallus.
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>>2005533
A cock
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a dude's junk
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>>2005555

>5555
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Mechanical gears
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>>2005558

fuck you but this is actually totally fucking awesome
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>>2005533
>evolutionary adaptation
anon you kinda have to pick one, these are quite different processes.
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Opposing thumbs.
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Most interesting, or most important?

The stomach, since external digestion and injecting acid into your food is pig disgusting.
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Pic related. Just look at this fucker, bat wings AND feathers. Damn son.
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Forgot pic
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>>2005533
I don't know about interesting, because that covers a LOT of fucking ground, but Pterosaur lift-off is fucking bizarre. Pushing yourself off the ground with the same appendages you then catch yourself in midair with is convoluted as all fuck.
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>>2005635
Probably also 100% fake. Fucking Chinks and their lies. They're ruining paleontology.
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>>2005743
>yi-qi

and they have the balls to name it something chinky, going against the convention of hundreds of years
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>>2005746
>going against the convention of hundreds of years
Asian words were used in Linnaean nomenclature clear back when Linnaeus invented the thing.
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>>2005748
You have to admit it is obnoxious to name all your new dinosaur "weird dragon, unusual dragon, surprising dragon, who would have thought that dragon" (rather than something pertaining the animal's characteristics) and in chinese to boot, which is a deliberate attempt at expressing cultural dominance.
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