6 Formerly Kickass Creatures Ruined by Evolution (with illustrations)

Cracked.com ^ | 6/23/2008 | Walter Lawrence

[Soliton]

Evolution isn't perfect. Just as the Kennedy family can produce a Ted, some noble species go down the wrong genetic path and what used to be the Tyrannosaurus Rex can wind up as a modern chicken.

Here are six kickass creatures that evolution apparently decided were just too awesome to exist and then, to add insult to injury, evolved them into the crappiest replacements possible.

[PLMerite]

“I have heard that one should avoid putting two male possums in the same enclosure, as one of them will bite off the other one’s tail.”

I thought this was going to be a “brokeback ‘possum” story.

[LibertarianSchmoe]

How do you know that? Were you.....in the kitchen? WERE YOU IN THE KITCHEN WITH DINAH??

Well, *someone* was...