Balearic island cave goat or myotragus balearicus, that went extinct ~3000-4000BCE, is the only known species of goat to have forward facing eyes

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    1. Homeboy was disadvantaged from the jump because he couldn’t see the opps pulling up before he got merked

    2. The inspiration for Baphomet. They saw this goat and thought it was the devil, leading to its extinction in 1989 when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.

    3. Interesting context:

      >The youngest and best known species, M. balearicus, is noted for a number of unusual morphological adaptations, including shortened legs with stiffened feet, forward facing eyes suggestive of binocular vision, a reduced number of teeth as well as an evergrowing lower incisor, and a relatively long lifespan, which developed in an unusual ecosystem where only a few other mammal species were present, **terrestrial predators were absent**, and Myotragus functioned as the only major herbivore.

    4. Feel like I went to school with this goat and he wasn’t popular but was a cool dude to hang with and we weren’t closed friends but close enough and he married his high school sweetheart.  

    5. We should resurrect them with dark magic in order to make people deeply unsettled by their uncanny valley effect.

    6. Medium-Wind8335 on

      Kind of glad it’s extinct from out world. Imagine that creepy bastard looking at you, its face as if it’s trying not to laugh before luring you in and eating you.

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