r/interestingasfuck 29d ago

/r/all Chick with genetic defect

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u/Dramatic-Avocado4687 29d ago

Why does this look functionally better than a normal chick?

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u/Velocity-5348 26d ago

Because that's more like what the ancestors of birds are like? The took their front limbs and turned them into wings. Just having useless wings sorta looks silly, because it is.

Now, if we can give flightless birds back their front arms we will have done the world a service.