Apologies for ignorance, but what changed about them? Is it that they’ve been evolving over millions of years, which is why they can survive in today’s world (even though they look the same).
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sylveon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
That’s not how evolution works. Today’s horseshoe crabs may look very similar to their ancestors hundreds of millions of years ago, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t evolve. I know it’s just a meme and not that serious, but misconceptions about evolution seem to be very common and I think that’s a shame.
alcibiades@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Revan343@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Basically that; I’d imagine their immune systems are more complex nowadays just because the threats are
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
also some of them got racing stripes
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 5 hours ago
And then, they went on to get rear spoilers… guns with silencers… blockchain…
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Similar to how humans and apes have a common ancestor, the horseshoe crabs would have an ancestor which looked very similar to today’s version, although slightly different, and some of them would have evolved into other things while some remained relatively unchanged.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Yeah, taxonomic classification always falls short of the natural world. It may be the same taxonomy, but that doesn’t mean they’re exactly the same.
Hell, if we only had dog fossils to work with, different breeds would almost certainly be considered entirely different species. But as it currently stands, they’re all the same species, (canis lupus familiaris), because we know the different breeds can mate with each other and produce viable offspring.
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Every animal in the comic should be a horseshoe crab.
Zink@programming.dev 2 hours ago
We need to see a subtle shift where one more character evolves into a crab between each panel of the comic.