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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIGHTY MIGHTY HETEROMORPHIN TIME⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is certainly a challenge to keep a large animal with such a thick shell afloat. However that would just explain the immense size of the shells. Their shape is just extremely weird and sometimes I’d even expect it to be detrimental to their ability to navigate the open water. If they were planktonic it would not be as problematic I guess but I still don’t see the functional advantage. Maybe mimicry? But of what?

  They look a lot like the calcareous shells of some polychaetes but they have a sedentary lifestyle attached to rock or other substrates which is not what we’d expect for Ammonites.

  Maybe it’s a puzzle that will remain unsolved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨best time of my life!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t hurt me like that :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌿👀🌿⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Drip feeders can in fact be excellent. Unless you’re already the kind of person who will forget about those as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIGHTY MIGHTY HETEROMORPHIN TIME⁩ ⁨⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌿👀🌿⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For 90% of people it’s watering issues. Mostly overwatering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIGHTY MIGHTY HETEROMORPHIN TIME⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting reassurance during literature research⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  True, although some thankless tasks are more thankful than others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno, still might be aliens with this one.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And then eat the meat sometimes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty interesting, huh?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  True, however there were extinctions caused by far larger increases in CO2 than we have today and it didn’t happen. So at this moment it does not seem likely that we will achieve it this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty interesting, huh?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  CO2 usually stabilises within tens of millions of years and would probably go back to a pre industrial level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One thing I've learned after 21 years - you never know what is gonna come through that door.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel attacked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One thing I've learned after 21 years - you never know what is gonna come through that door.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel attacked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One thing I've learned after 21 years - you never know what is gonna come through that door.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  More likely the small size, flight and the holometabolous lifestyle.

  There is the theory that the number of species is related to the number of available niches. For mammals, a tree may offer 2-3 with the ground, the branches and maybe something like burrowing (this is just for illustration purposes).

  Insects can live in the leaves, dead branches, inside the wood, in the mosses, on the ground, in the leaf litter layer, burrowing etc., etc. because they are so small. They can also easily transit between different places because most of them can fly.

  Because the larvae of holometabolous insects can occupy a completely different niche than the adults, every combination of niches can more or less be considered a new niche.

  All of this is reflected in the species richness of insects. The primary wingless groups of insects are not very diverse compared to winged insects. And within the winged insects, the holometabolous species make up the vast majority. Hymenoptera, flies and beetles make up the majority of insects and they are all winged and holometabolous. If you just look at the hemimetabolous ones, they aren’t much more diverse than other groups of arthropods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spinosarus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting idea. Aren’t these huge neck muscles mainly for supporting their huge head while grazing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you might find some help in meditative techniques but that isn’t for everyone and I don’t think it will be cured by anything completely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Go back in time and wear ear protection

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Aliens did a little trolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

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  The definition of “race” varies widely between different demographics and contexts. In a biological context which you seem to be insinuating, “race” is either nonsensical or an ancient synonym for species.

  pedantic mode 0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The German government is working on an OSS "Sovereign Workplace"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Zuse built the arguably first digitally programmable computer or something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The understanding of the world also changed during the immense time of writing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eye spy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of that is controversial as far as I know. And the pseudopupils are an optical Artifact since every single eye has its own opening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You work on the train?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2841: Sign Combo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone will at some point try this for sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple AirTag Stalking Has Led to Murder, Amended Class-Action Lawsuit Says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not like there aren’t any trackers that lack any and all protection. I don’t really see the manufacturer at fault here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨internet points⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I also don’t know how they come up with that BS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Joy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that the same thing? Why work as a scientist when you don’t have interesting research to do? And if you do, then getting funding should be possible. I know that it can get quite tricky and exhausting but what exactly do those people expect? The whole job of scientists is to come up with worthwhile questions and to find answers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨internet points⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know, the big ones charge very high processors fees

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reason #72151 why I don't tolerate Neelix hate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I could read it just fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it need more than one name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s the joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do life insurance rules that deny payment after suicide discriminate against those with mental health issues? If those rules didn't exist would suicide rate increase?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole point of insurances is discrimination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The iPhone 13 mini is dead, leaving small phone lovers in a lurch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a bit of a painful workaround considering paying for and not using the main selling point and then having to use a phone that’s twice as thick as it should be.