Talk:3069: Terror Bird
Small xkcd-related announcement!
--FaviFake (talk) 16:35, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Oh, wow, never seen a blank explanation before! RadiantRainwing (talk) 02:48, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Jill is a pretty rare character (only 59 appearances). Cool to see a rare character.
this seems to be a play on dinosaurs in media to look more accurate by having feathers, which some view as making them less scary. this comic is a reversal, where the bird is supposedly more accurate and scarier. 108.162.242.28 04:17, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- hmm maybe RadiantRainwing (talk) 16:09, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Considering there are childs show with Barney the purple dinosaur, and that's supposed to be tyrannosaurus-rex, apex predator, and is STILL not scary, making Big Bird scary is not related to what species it might be at all. -- Hkmaly (talk) 16:58, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
I suspect Randall just received the latest edition of Scientific American. It summarizes recent discovery of a thick keratin sheath over the already known bony weapons in some dino species, making the nasty parts even nastier: bigger, heavier, and more resistant to damage. 172.71.191.130 22:59, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Bird Height It looks like the bird is around 12 feet / 3.5 m tall (in comparison with the humans), but the Wikipedia article indicated that terror birds reached at max 10 feet / 3 meters. Is anyone eyeballing the situation differently? Is that noteworthy? 172.71.182.229 01:02, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
