What do fungi converge into?
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lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 day ago
What makes me lose my sleep:
Trees are extremely iconic and we see a lot of similarities between them, but they’re mostly due to convergent evolution. Plants have been growing that stalk independently over and over and over. Crustaceans become crab-like, mammals become ant eaters, and plants become trees. *carcinisation intensifies*
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 day ago
The gods do not concern themselves with convergence
apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 day ago
My tummy
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
Truly the peak of evolution
Ioughttamow@fedia.io 23 hours ago
Party animals
flora_explora@beehaw.org 17 hours ago
What isn’t iconic in nature though? Plants also have turned into similar looking herbs and shrubs over and over again. Or look at epiphytes! If there is an available niche it will get filled. And since plants all start with more or less the same basics, they fill it similarly. Evolution likes to repurpose stuff.
vacuumfountain@startrek.website 1 day ago
If like me you hadn’t heard of mammals turning into anteaters: Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age, study finds
Technus@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Great source of protein crawling there across the ground, it’d be a shame if someone wasn’t there to eat it