this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
512 points (98.5% liked)

Curated Tumblr

5525 readers
567 users here now

For preserving the least toxic and most culturally relevant Tumblr heritage posts.

Here are some OCR tools to assist you in transcribing posts:

Don't be mean. I promise to do my best to judge that fairly.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Apytele@sh.itjust.works
ethaver@kbin.earth
512
The mountain goats aren't actual goats (europe.pub)
submitted 1 week ago by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works
44 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 5 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Also, those flightless aquatic birds most people call penguins are not actually that. Penguins are extinct.

[–] devdoggy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

What?!?

[–] roz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Essentially there was a species of birds called the great awks which most people called penguins, the 'only modern species in the genus Pinguinus' that humans hunted to extinction in the ~~late 1700's~~ mid 1800's. What we call penguins today were only named that because of their resemblance to these extinct birds

[–] devdoggy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Ahhhh, thank you!

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)