Because it's sick AF, and they're sick AF.

If you can make it to the same height, you're free to try as well!

Their eyes are stationary in their sockets, so they gotta have crazy necks that are all bendy and whatnot

To see the Side Mice, duh

They're not, but who's going to stop them? The system is crumbling.

Next tier evolution.

Someone had to be the most badass after the dinosaurs threw in the towel to some space rock.

Owls have twice as many neck vertebra of us lowly stiff necked humans

Right answer.

Someone has to. Might as well be them.
It wasn't going to work on bears because bears can't fly.

whos gonna stop them, the federal owl service? they can't even put a ladder up without hitting their head

so owls have double the neck per neck compared to humans. that's wild.

then they should go to the hospital

Owls have the right to get ill.

*loose-eyed humans.

This comment made my neck hurt

I'd like to put in an evolutionary pull request to upgrade the human body with the following features:

• Bendy neck for gyroscopic head stabilization
• Ultra-low latency zoomable vision
• 360° neck rotation

Now that you mention it, they are kind of OP. Flight, stealth, hypermobility. And looking like absolute BAMF'ers at any size or angle.

Who’s going to stop them?

They are excellent predators, but they're not that intelligent. There is always a trade off. Owls are often used as imagery to represent intellect or wisdom but it's pretty much an ancient misunderstanding. Any corvid will beat an owl at intelligence. A true OP Animal would be excellent hunters AND be highly intelligent. Humans are a good example.

They figured out the drift-stare before Luigi did!

Hold up, if we’re doing that we need to add internal gonads and separated food & air tubes.

That actual owl looks like a cubist rendition of an owl.

My neck already hurt so I was hoping after reading your comment that it would have the opposite effect and stop hurting, but alas.

That you know of

Corkscrew neck bones.

And it's coiled up like a spring!

2 cm longer arms so we can scratch that spot at the back, pls

As long as you’re redesigning us intelligently, straighten out that recurrent laryngeal nerve.

I like the thought of a world where Owls are speciest towards us and call us stiff-necks