Considering horses (and thus horseshoes) came way after the horseshoe crab, we really should rename the horseshoe to “crab shoe” or something and “horseshoe crab” to something else. Ideas welcome.
Byeeeeeee
Submitted 1 day ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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AnIntenseMoist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’m in favour of renaming horses to crab feet.
casmael@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Yeah I was gna say something like this - the crab is on the other foot, if you get my drift
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Agree, they are not Horse shoes, nor crabs
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
angry hissing crab? nah that’s all of them. alexa how do you say pointy butt crab in esperanto?
sylveon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 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.
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Every animal in the comic should be a horseshoe crab.
Zink@programming.dev 16 minutes ago
We need to see a subtle shift where one more character evolves into a crab between each panel of the comic.
alcibiades@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
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).
Revan343@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Basically that; I’d imagine their immune systems are more complex nowadays just because the threats are
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 18 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.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 day ago
I see a trilobite and an ammonite in there, did those guys even leave any evolved descendants before they went extinct?
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Yes, but those also went extinct.
neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Except Nautili still exist today
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Cool thanks, we’ll be back for your blood!
halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
This reminded me to sit up straight.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 4 hours ago
Nautilus having second thoughts …