Imagine being the first crab
The various species before the first couple extinction events must have been fascinating
Submitted 4 weeks ago by EditsHisComments@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
During and prior to the Cambrian explosion, before living organisms as a whole had experienced so many bottlenecks and evolutionary shocks, imagine what little guys were swimming around.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The ones after the next extinction event will be even better!
floo@retrolemmy.com 4 weeks ago
Paleontology studies this. Perhaps you should study paleontology?
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Too late, I studied Finance and National Economics and work in Logistics. Space and evolution are my biggest interests outside of that, though
floo@retrolemmy.com 4 weeks ago
It’s never too late to study something new!
squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Paleontology only scratches the most superficial part of the surface, since the vast majority of organisms die without getting fossilized.
floo@retrolemmy.com 4 weeks ago
Your statement struck me as strange and somewhat ironic because paleontology involves a lot of digging deep to find fossils. And while I obviously can’t disagree with you on the fact that a lot of organisms did die without getting fossilized, I disagree that paleontology is just “scratching the surface“. Certainly, not everything can be revealed via paleontology for the obvious reasons, but it has revealed an awful lot.