Tumblr Thread: Extinct Cold-Blooded Cave Goat Is An Objectively Creepy Animal

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Eric Lund
Oct 20, 2021 11:00 AM EDT

It's unusual to get these kinds of heebie jeebies when looking at a mammal, but this isn't any normal mammal. Tumblr takes a look at the weird, cold-blooded, cave-dwelling, forward eyed goat that looks like the kind of thing you would never tell about your parties. It's as if this is the reason that some goats scream.

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    Font - tilthat Follow TIL a cave goat that went extinct approx. 5,000 years ago is the first known mammal to have become cold-blooded. Their bone growth rate is unlike any other mammal, and more similar to crocodiles in showing slow and adaptive rates to environmental temperature. via http://ift.tt/2vtQOYg r-evolution-aries Follow The goat's binomial name is Myotragus balearicus. It was kind of an oddball in a lot of other ways, too, an example being that it had forward-facing eyes, giving it st
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    Extinction - creepsandcrawlers Follow can't believe we missed out on hte fked up crocodile goat. :( thylacineshrine that was the devil shoresoftheshadowlands Follow
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    Font - wingleader Follow What the what ohnoagremlin Follow having a bad time picturing what a goat with forward facing eyes would look like devilishdescent Follow
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    Felidae - devilishdescent Follow it went extinct because anything that saw it instinctively wanted to kill it
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