The Bell Curve Of Extinction Understanding

Finally, a win for Australian wildlife! The headline claims Australians accidentally ate an undiscovered fish species, but Maria's comment flips the script brilliantly. In a country where practically everything evolved specifically to murder humans, it's refreshing that for once, Australians are eating mysterious creatures instead of being eaten by them. Taxonomists are probably sobbing into their classification charts right now. "We could've named it Piscis australianus consumptus but nooooo, someone had to make it into fish and chips first!"

From single-celled organisms to apex predators in just 2.4 billion years! This brilliant meme captures the epic evolutionary journey from primitive cells undergoing mitosis to modern crocodilians. The classic farewell phrase "see you later alligator" / "in a while crocodile" becomes a literal promise fulfilled after eons of natural selection. Those little cells kept their word, and the reunion was worth the wait! Evolution really is just cells making plans for the distant future.

Scientists: "Let's insert human genes into monkey brains to make them bigger!" Everyone who's seen literally any sci-fi movie: *nervous sweating* The irony is delicious—we're smart enough to genetically engineer primate brains but apparently not smart enough to watch the 47 cautionary tales where this exact experiment leads to super-intelligent apes overthrowing humanity. Next up in the lab: creating dinosaurs from mosquito DNA because that worked out great in fiction too!

The frog is defying gravity by climbing a wall, but the goat explains the physics with the equation μN ≥ mg, which is the fundamental friction inequality. For something to stick to a wall, the friction force (μN) must be greater than or equal to the gravitational force (mg). The goat isn't impressed because... well, goats can climb nearly vertical surfaces naturally due to their specialized hooves! Their friction coefficient is basically a cheat code in the physics engine of life. The frog's shocked expression in the final panel is priceless - outsmarted by a goat who doesn't need fancy sticky pads to defy gravity.

The neuroscience equivalent of going from dial-up to fiber optic internet! Unmyelinated axons crawl along at pathetic speeds while their myelinated counterparts zoom through the nervous system like they've got somewhere important to be. Those beautiful nodes of Ranvier let signals jump from node to node (saltatory conduction for you nerds) instead of sluggishly creeping along the entire axon length. The graphs don't lie - we're talking 5x faster signal propagation! Evolution really outdid itself with this one. Myelin sheaths: turning your neurons from sad Palpatine into unlimited power Palpatine since vertebrates became a thing.

This is what happens when legal systems collide with biological classification! The meme beautifully escalates from basic taxonomy confusion ("whales are fish") to the scientifically accurate ("whales are mammals"), but then takes a delightful nosedive into taxonomic chaos ("mammals are fish") with that snarky "screw paraphyletic groups" comment. The punchline about California courts classifying bumblebees as fish is 100% real! In 2022, CA courts ruled bumblebees could be protected under laws for "fish" because the legal definition included invertebrates. Basically, California said "close enough!" and biologists everywhere had simultaneous aneurysms. 🐝=🐟 according to law, and suddenly taxonomy has never been more exciting!