Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 28, 2022

Your ancestors would be very disappointed with you, bird.

I like that little “Karate Kid” stance in panel 3.

Were his ancestors also yellow colored?

Where is Guard Duck when you need him?

I am Canary, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore!

I think Rat and Pig are getting too much screen time.

What ever happended to Zeba and the Crocs?

That’s nice. But what have you done the last 200 million years?

Attitude is everything.

This is why me eats chicken. Revenge is mine! Haw haw!

Foul fowl.

Birds are descended from some, but not all, dinosaurs. They are not descended from tyrannosaurus rex.

Anyone who doesn’t think birds come from dinosaurs has never seen a bald cardinal with feather mites.

I suppose there must have been small dinosaurs. After all there are lizards.

Guard Duck is evolutionary link between the Tyrannosaurus Rex and modern birds.

Relative of Guard Duck?

One agressive bird.

Ah, delusions of grandeur. The desendent of a therapod, yes – but not THAT therapod. T-Rex’s smaller cousin. More like he’d be biting your ankles.

Ingrate.

Not too many birds with teeth like that…maybe it’s telling the truth?! :D

Pig logic. What he should do is feed the little guy and keep him happy.

Hummingbirds are hyper-aggressive, I suspect they are descendants of velociraptors.

You don’t want bears in it anyway.

Chickens have the most T Rex DNA. We’re eating him.

This is pretty much what Canada Geese do all the time, but they can (almost) carry through on their threats.

Were there pigs 66 to 90 million years ago?

Not a direct descendant or first cousin more like a millionth cousin a million times removed.

Pig is so easily afraid.

Never mind Guard Duck. Would the kitten eat it or team up with it?

Don’t punish the masses for one idiot

What ARE they putting in that feeder?!

That’s why birds shouldn’t have access to any information. They should be blocked from Twitter

This is a fact a learned from a kid in camp when I was a counselor in training

Amazing what 65 million years will do.

Thank goodness it’s not then anymore.

Will somebody PLEASE explain those Jurassic Park movies and why anybody would want a pet T-Rex?

You can pick plant-eating Brontosaurases—-but that isn’t macho enough.You gotta have the dangerous one to prove what a big shot YOU are.

It’s like KING KONG—“We’ll teach this big ape fear!I’m smaller than his toenail,but I’ll teach him fear!”

The beak configuration makes me think that it’s a bug eater.

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

It’s funny how cartoon birds often claim to be descended from T-rex. None of them say they’re descended from Compsognathus! It’s like how so many people claim to have been Alexander the Great or Joan of Arc in a past life, never a peasant or a knave.

Yes. But you are not. Fly away little bird before I step on you…..

Is that the ‘crane technique’??

Oh, that reminds me that I wanted BBQ ribs for dinner…………….

So cowardly, Pig! The T-Rex descendent is still just a tiny songbird, and even your pencil-legs could stomp him flat….

Personally, I think turkeys are descended from velociraptors.

Yeah, no. Even if you believe birds are dinosaurs, you know they didn’t descend from T. rex. Cute, though.

If this were then, Italy wold rule the known world.

tyrannosaurs really shrunk in the last 13 million years