Triops: tiny freshwater horseshoe crab looking guys. You can buy their eggs for cheap online and raise and breed your own. Easier and cheaper than SeaMonkeys.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
on 24 Jun 15:41
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qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
on 24 Jun 16:20
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Is there any consensus as to the internal organs/stuff which maybe doesn’t fossilize well? Like, did they just evolve a bitchin’ chassis but they’re constantly tinkering with the internal bits?
samus12345@lemmy.world
on 24 Jun 16:56
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In truth, the modern horsehoe crab is different than its ancestors, just not as much as usually occurs in several hundred million years. So Frank was really more like, “Eh, maybe a little, but not much.”
BoxedFenders@hexbear.net
on 24 Jun 18:07
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They would most likely look the same but there are still evolutionary changes deeper in the DNA that aren’t visible like metabolic and digestive functions. A modern horseshoe crab would not be able to reproduce with one from a 100 million years ago despite looking virtually identical.
Fossilisation has a bit more to do with deposition conditions than the creature itself. It’s why we know next to nothing about jungle dinosaurs and ones around mountains. Most of our knowledge comes from marine and wetland dinos.
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world
on 24 Jun 17:36
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They shouldn’t have evolved blood that’s useful to humans, really pretty short sighted of them
01101000_01101001@mander.xyz
on 24 Jun 18:07
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You may not like it, but this is what peak evolution looks like.
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Sort of a testament (ha) of the stability of it’s niche.
that pun was divine.
Survival is a war and they have won
cuts them in half for their yummy blood
“Nature abhors a vacuum, and anything that is not a crab.”
Or a crocodile.
Crabadile - the ultimate lifeform.
They are the tastiest life form.
They are also the ultimate in that field.
Triops: tiny freshwater horseshoe crab looking guys. You can buy their eggs for cheap online and raise and breed your own. Easier and cheaper than SeaMonkeys.
Nature did make it the sexiest creature
Do not the crab
I will the crab
Please do not the crab
The crab it is
I already the crab.
Kani oshi
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Nature’s Frying Pan
Is there any consensus as to the internal organs/stuff which maybe doesn’t fossilize well? Like, did they just evolve a bitchin’ chassis but they’re constantly tinkering with the internal bits?
In truth, the modern horsehoe crab is different than its ancestors, just not as much as usually occurs in several hundred million years. So Frank was really more like, “Eh, maybe a little, but not much.”
They would most likely look the same but there are still evolutionary changes deeper in the DNA that aren’t visible like metabolic and digestive functions. A modern horseshoe crab would not be able to reproduce with one from a 100 million years ago despite looking virtually identical.
Fossilisation has a bit more to do with deposition conditions than the creature itself. It’s why we know next to nothing about jungle dinosaurs and ones around mountains. Most of our knowledge comes from marine and wetland dinos.
They shouldn’t have evolved blood that’s useful to humans, really pretty short sighted of them
You may not like it, but this is what peak evolution looks like.
“How’s work’n the Ordovician era, Frankiiieee?” “‘sarright” “Poor Frankie…”
makes toxic-bacteria-detecting blood like a boss
I strive to have that level of self acceptance.