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?
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Submitted 1 week ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 week ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 week ago
In truth, the modern horsehoe crab is different than its ancestors, just not as much as usually occurs in several hundred million years.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 week ago
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.
BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 1 week ago
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.
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They shouldn’t have evolved blood that’s useful to humans, really pretty short sighted of them
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
“Nature abhors a vacuum, and anything that is mot a crab.”
Cagi@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
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 1 week ago
Nature did make it the sexiest creature
FGoo@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Do not the crab
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I will the crab
yamanii@lemmy.world 1 week ago
lowleveldata@programming.dev 1 week ago
Survival is a war and they have won
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 week ago
cuts them in half for their yummy blood
01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 1 week ago
You may not like it, but this is what peak evolution looks like.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Sort of a testament (ha) of the stability of it’s niche.
crawancon@lemm.ee 1 week ago
that pun was divine.
Gork@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Nature’s Frying Pan
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 1 week ago
“How’s work’n the Ordovician era, Frankiiieee?” “‘sarright” “Poor Frankie…”
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
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