And according to Anjali Goswami, an evolutionary biologist at the Natural History Museum in London, cats aren’t just graceful. They’re evolutionarily perfect. She explains that unlike some other animals, for example dogs, which come in wildly different shapes and sizes, all cats share the same body structure.
“It doesn’t matter whether they’re tiny Bengal cats or gigantic lions or tigers; they’re gonna basically look the same,” she says. “If you handed me a lion or tiger skull, I could not, as a person who’s a pretty solid expert in carnivorans in general, tell you which one it was.”
To her, that consistency is the proof. Cats figured out one thing so well that they never needed to change.
So yes, the photos in this list are hilarious. And yes, these cats look absolutely ridiculous in every single one. But let’s be real. These little weirdos are still some of the most perfectly designed creatures on the planet.
They just happened to get caught at a bad angle. We’ve all been there.
