Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 02, 2023

I stay in bed to sleep

Pig’s worried because of all his mass.

Probably survive the sixth and seventh mass extinctions also.

Life: Ain’t NObody gets out alive…

Hey Mother Nature is a real Serial Killer , Don’t Pi££ Her Off !

Timmy wants to know if you have any messages to pass along to the evolved cockroaches that will replace us.

News flash, Pig: staying in bed won’t help.

Dinos ice age wut else

This little piggy stayed home.

World’s largest tardigrade!

They may have survived, but they have NEVER won any races.

A Tardigrade is “often” “commonly” called a Water Bear.

To me, it looks kind of like a microscopic mole rat.

Too worried about things to stay in bed!

Biggest tardigrade ever.

Hey, a pig in a blanket!

…and my learning continues…

Where’s his cousin, Wally the Waterbear?

Sorry? There have been five mass extinctions? Before fossil fuel carbon emissions? You mean climate shifts and changes as a natural process?

Five? I need to look that up.

Five mass extinctions or one Divine Global Judgement — either way, looks like the next one isn’t far off. I don’t think staying in bed is the answer, though.

All the millions of Earthly species alive today have ancestors who have survived all the mass extinctions.

Pig doesn’t want his kind to be wiped off the face of the Earth.

Enormous tardigrade.

The five mass extinctions. https://ourworldindata.org/mass-extinctions

I would like to see much more of Tardigrade. He needs a rich backstory, a nickname (Tardi? TG?) and some plotlines dedicated to him. Please!

Is this the worm that’s come alive after defrosting from the permafrost?

His name is Timmy. He is now doomed to perish well before the next mass extinction.

And weren’t they spilled on the moon by an accidental crash? I wonder if they are still alive.

Goat speaks for Timmy?

I don’t blame you, Pig.

just a thought: we’re in the midst of the sixth great extinction event. We’re killing off songbirds, butterflies, whales, fish, and quite possibly ourselves….

Nah, it’s just one of the reasons you stay there.

Leave it to the humorless paranoids try to ruin a fun strip for the rest of us.

And now, the Anthropocene Extinction…

At least 5 and it feels like the next one is warming up in the batters’ box.

does that include the mass extinction happening today…

5, as far as we know.

It’s official: the world hates us and is trying to kill us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

With the decline of organized religion, some mass extinctions are bound to happen

Tardigrade: “I’ve survived 5 mass extinctions.” Mankind: "Challenge accepted. "

Soon to be six

And we are experiencing the sixth.

We’re under another now. Live, love, and enjoy. They achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

That is one BIG tardigrade!

And we’re in the midst of the sixth.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If a mass extinction occurs, at least I had lay myself down in peace, and sleep. At least I won’t wake up as someone’s bacon in the morn.

Dig deeper, more extinction events have been found and if we don’t modify this one even the tardigrades won’t make it. Burning spent fuel rod radiation will destroy the ozone.

We’re overdue for another

which is a good thing

Mass extinction of common sense is almost as bad.

Big for a tardigrade. Now they are bulking up for the takeover. I’m all for it— how could they be worse than humans?

It’s like Waiting for Godot, save that Pig is Waiting for Mass Extinction Number Six….

You can just as easily get extincted in bed, Pig.