obviously this makes no sense evolutionarily, they must have been created by mermaids to make various instruments out of their shells.
MIGHTY MIGHTY HETEROMORPHIN TIME
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DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 1 year ago
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 year ago
I mean, I suppose they might seem bigger to a predator, and harder to swallow for something that swallows prey whole?
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I don’t see anything impractical about the one that’s just an ordinary ammonite but with spikes.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 year ago
The Mariella one also looks fairly normal, looks like a number of aquatic snail species
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah but it was novel at the time
sheepishly@kbin.social 1 year ago
These are some weird regional Omanytes.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 year ago
Doot.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just some hard shell noodle bois dooting the best they can
Slowy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Niche, silly, beautiful
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mighty Heteromorphic Mollusk Rangers
moistclump@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I read hetrimorph ammonite time in “peanut butter jelly time” tune.
lol3droflxp@kbin.social 1 year ago
Has anyone got some conclusive theories on the functional morphology of this?
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This was the “fuck around” era of evolution and being wacky was cool
LouisGarbuor@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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?
lol3droflxp@kbin.social 1 year 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.
Damaskox@kbin.social 1 year ago
It's crazy to think about how long it took to get more than one-cell life!
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The evolutionary origins of trombone