Comment by kjkjadksj
2 years ago
Give it a strong selective pressure towards speed and a few million years and you will have your supersonic duck.
2 years ago
Give it a strong selective pressure towards speed and a few million years and you will have your supersonic duck.
Intercontinental ballistic mallards? Just another trillion-dollar boondoggle from the military-ornithological complex.
Reverse dragooning by expelling fiery farts made of hypergolics fueled by fantastic fermentation?
Something like that is featured in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books. (Don't spoil the book it's in!)
GNU Terry Pratchett
There's also that Harry Potter spinoff movie in which he becomes a supersonic corpse with a farting jet-butt in order to visit some pretty redwood parks: https://www.inverse.com/article/17614-how-swiss-army-man-mad...
Something similar already happened in reality in another evolutionary chain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle
(on a much smaller scale)