- Diddlydee ( @Diddlydee@feddit.uk ) English24•21 days ago
They are also the most successful hunters in the animal kingdom with a ~97% success rate. They don’t know trigonometry, but their brains allow them to calculate where their prey will be and they intercept it.
- InvertedParallax ( @InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ) English23•21 days ago
I mean, most humans don’t really ‘know’ trigonometry, we can still play catch.
- Fester ( @Fester@lemm.ee ) English16•21 days ago
You’re wrong! I can’t do either.
- SaharaMaleikuhm ( @SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ) English4•20 days ago
Aha! Science!
- drolex ( @drolex@sopuli.xyz ) English24•21 days ago
Predating dinosaurs: as in ‘predators’ or ‘pre-dating’?
I’m scared.
- casmael ( @casmael@lemm.ee ) English9•21 days ago
Til dragonflies eat a diet of mosquitoes and dinosaurs 🫨
- leftzero ( @leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ) English4•20 days ago
Definitely the second (by around a hundred million years), probably not the first (some dragonflies were certainly large enough to hunt small flying dinosaurs — i.e., small birds —, but they almost certainly lived one or two hundred million years apart, which would have made the whole affair rather difficult, as dragonflies, as good as they are, can’t yet hunt through time).
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English2•21 days ago
Hahaha nice!
- Thorry84 ( @Thorry84@feddit.nl ) English15•21 days ago
Do yourself a favor and watch this vid about dragonflies, it’s super cool: https://youtu.be/8i9WMD6xbuA
- NeatNit ( @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ) English8•21 days ago
Hey I was gonna say that
To scrollers: this is a recent video by AlphaPhoenix where he captures slow-motion footage of dragonflies. Some amazing shots in there. Well, one at least.
- SaharaMaleikuhm ( @SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ) English12•20 days ago
100? Let’s pump those numbers up my lovelies!
- UraniumBlazer ( @UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ) English10•21 days ago
Serious question: Has any culture tried breeding these guys to keep mosquitoes at bay? Something like how people kept cats around to reduce the population of mice?
- NeatNit ( @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ) English2•21 days ago
They’re not cute like cats, so I guess no.
- vovo ( @vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English6•20 days ago
#badtopology
- MonkeMischief ( @MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ) English4•20 days ago
Well the wing itself isn’t supposed to deform so we’re good! :P
Seriously funny seeing this after trying repeatedly to retopologize simple objects, but making myself stick to quads to build the skills and “poly-perception”…It’s truly maddening and un-fun lol.
Thanks for linking that site further down, by the way. :D
- Karyoplasma ( @Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ) English6•21 days ago
Dragonflies are a speed 13 unit that you can theoretically build on day 2.
- P4ulin_Kbana ( @P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br ) English1•20 days ago
This sounds like the intro of a old TV superhero series, it just needs a narrator, then a small montage with music.