MIGHTY MIGHTY HETEROMORPHIN TIME

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• CodexArcanum@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The evolutionary origins of trombone

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• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  obviously this makes no sense evolutionarily, they must have been created by mermaids to make various instruments out of their shells.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Assorted butt plug shapes.

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    • SandLight@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Excuse Me?

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  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, I suppose they might seem bigger to a predator, and harder to swallow for something that swallows prey whole?

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t see anything impractical about the one that’s just an ordinary ammonite but with spikes.

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  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Mariella one also looks fairly normal, looks like a number of aquatic snail species

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah but it was novel at the time

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• sheepishly@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These are some weird regional Omanytes.

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• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doot.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just some hard shell noodle bois dooting the best they can

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• Slowy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Niche, silly, beautiful

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• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mighty Heteromorphic Mollusk Rangers

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• moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I read hetrimorph ammonite time in “peanut butter jelly time” tune.

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• lol3droflxp@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Has anyone got some conclusive theories on the functional morphology of this?

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This was the “fuck around” era of evolution and being wacky was cool

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  • LouisGarbuor@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In my history of life class I was tought it was to do with controlling buoyancy, although all the variation seems odd for that.

    Maybe a combination of controlling buoyancy with species identification?

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    • lol3droflxp@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Might be plausible. I’ll have to look it up at one point, maybe there’s some research on this. I think it may be hard to guess why because we don’t have many swimming animals with shells. I don’t know if snails may offer some answers but they are maybe to different in lifestyle.

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• Damaskox@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It's crazy to think about how long it took to get more than one-cell life!

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