curled and half asleep

Run where they can't follow.

For decades, we've thought that pronghorns evolved for speed because of Miracynonix, or the American cheetah, which preyed on them extensively during the Pleistocene. However, in February, new fossil evidence suggested that ancestors of pronghorns began this process at least 5 million years before the appearance of Miracynonix. We typically think of predators as trailblazers, as shapers of the world -- but don't often consider that it may have been the prey that changed them.

I paused in confusion. “Do you mean… the- the cereal I made for class three years ago?”

“Yeah. Fun*ga*loops. I think about it sometimes.”

“…why?”

“When I eat my little mushrooms for breakfast, I think about it. I think kids would like saying it more that MuShLoOps.”