What's funny is how absurd this is. Most flowers don't look like birds and they're fine.

Right, but what about the mimic plant? It mimicks whatever plant is near it. And it can mimic plastic plants. https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2022/11/30/23473062/plant-mimicry-boquila-trifoliolata

My guess would be Yulan magnolia blossoms.

Know what's wild? For millions of years nothing around ate trees, so when a tree grew and died and fell it was permanently there because there was no rot. Which is how we got petrified forests.

Life in general is most likely something the universe invented to speed up entropy.

I typically assume it's a non-native speaker with things like this, but I'm not sure in this case.

I'd read this with commas around 'like', rather than with a period after it: "... how birds look, like, I'm afraid" works as a sentence while "... how birds look like. I'm afraid" is both wrong, like you point out, but also sounds much more serious than the jokey tone I'd expect from a message without punctuation and capitalization

Did you understand what was being communicated? Yes? Congratulations!

Because, really, that's generally all that's necessary.

This is brilliant, thanks

However it doesn't explain how trees know how to fly (thinking of maple seeds with they're near-perfect wings)

The evidence is building, I can no longer deny

I rewatched Annihilation recently. That fucking bear scene still haunts me. Great film.

droning sounds intensify

The lizard vine is a fake

No, it just implies that it was adaptive to look like a bird.

It could be for any number of reasons, including because aliens exist and years ago they were like "let's screw up all the plants in this area for generations" until the leader's kid saw one that kind of looked like little birds and threw themselves in front of it and said "wait, no, spare this one."

Yeah, some people can't even recognize a joke.

People don't get the timescale of an evolutionary feature like this. And how long it was only kinda bird like.

Intuitively understanstanding evolution is something most people dont need so i cant really fault people for it. But yeah either trolling or actually stupid who knows.