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No. 985: The Inevitable End Result of Jurassic Park Parenting

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The Inevitable End Result of Jurassic Park Parenting

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/itoons/?comic=985

Strip by: AlduinTheCat

{A woman approaches a girl (henceforth referred to as "Megan" and "Jill" respectively in accordance with explainxkcd's character names) who is reading from a stack of books}
Megan: What are you reading about?
Jill: Dinosaurs!
Megan: Oh, yeah.
Megan: They've gotten all weird since I was a kid. They used to be awesome, but now they all have dorky feathers, right?
Jill: Yup!
Jill: This says they now think raptors used their wings for stability, flapping to stay on top of their prey while hanging on with their hooked claws and eating it alive.
Citation at panel's bottom: * Fowler et. al., PLoS ONE 6(12), 2011
{Beat panel}
{Megan sits on the floor crumpled up into a near-fetal pose with her hands over her face, apparently disturbed. Jill continues reading, seemingly unaffected}

The author writes:

The present keeps getting scarier! (And there's more of it every day!)

Original xkcd strips: 383, 1104; title references 531.