Perfection

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• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In truth, the modern horsehoe crab is different than its ancestors, just not as much as usually occurs in several hundred million years.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • BoxedFenders@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They shouldn’t have evolved blood that’s useful to humans, really pretty short sighted of them

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Nature abhors a vacuum, and anything that is mot a crab.”

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  • Addv4@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or a crocodile.

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    • notabot@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Crabadile - the ultimate lifeform.

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• Cagi@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nature did make it the sexiest creature

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  • FGoo@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do not the crab

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    • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I will the crab

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  • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kani oshi

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• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Survival is a war and they have won

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    cuts them in half for their yummy blood

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• 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You may not like it, but this is what peak evolution looks like.

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• Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sort of a testament (ha) of the stability of it’s niche.

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  • crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    that pun was divine.

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• Gork@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nature’s Frying Pan

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• BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “How’s work’n the Ordovician era, Frankiiieee?” “‘sarright” “Poor Frankie…”

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