Something weird happening with the atmospheric pressure?

[conuly]

I've had to pop my ears multiple times today.

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Comments

[siliconshaman]

IIRC, there used to be a large vulture or eagle in africa that predated our distant evolutionary ancestors. They've found multiple cases of hominid skulls with puncture marks from raptor talons.

The interesting thing is, paleo archaeologists have also found hominid skulls with puncture marks that show bone remodeling, i.e the individual survived having six inch talons driven into their skull.

and 4.7 million years later, you get people like E.G or Phineas Gauge who survive the seemingly impossible. thanks to an evolutionary adaptation to long extinct avian predator.

[conuly]

Are vultures equipped to hunt rather than scavenge?

[siliconshaman]

Some are.. Eagle Harpy for example. I guess they got fed up waiting for carron and decided to eat something fresh for once?

Although now that I say that.. I think technically Harp eagles are only mostly scavengers and sometimes hunt, and I'm not sure they're classed as vultures even though they belong in the same family as some that are.

I think the vulture definition is a bit loose, i.e all birds that only eat carron are called vultures, even though they will kill animals that are alive but sickly (precarron maybe?) and don't necessarily belong to the same taxonomic classification or are at all related. A'functional' classification rather than based on species relationships.

But in short.. yeah.. they can do.. they just don't always do.

[shadowkat]

Yep, been having barometric pressure headaches again and irritability. Also popping ears. It's the constant shifts in weather pattern - it's cold here, warm out west, then cold out west, warm here, and back again.

[thewayne]

Are the Martians draining more atmosphere than their allotment again?

Bastards.