Just play Spore and you will understand
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Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Dagnet@lemmy.world 11 months ago
chasingtheflow@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Was spore worthwhile?
Dagnet@lemmy.world 11 months ago
At the time it was revolutionary, till this day I haven’t seen any attempts at recreating it. I did prefer the earlier 2 stages tho (as in evolution stages), later it wasnt as much fun.
OpenStars@discuss.online 11 months ago
Aquilae@hexbear.net 11 months ago
The ones on the right are kinda cute imo
Adalast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Geez, it’s like nobody has ever played Spore.
icetree@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Spore
More spikes is always the correct solution.
merari42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Too few phallic animals for that
galoisghost@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Did they really look like this or were there big fat blubbery bits that didn’t survive fossilisation
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unlikely for there to be bubbly bits. These are bugs, so we know their shape because their exoskeleton (which is what fossilizes) is their shape. Fish haven’t evolved yet
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
These seem to be illustrations of Burgess Shale organisms, Burgess Shale being renowned for the excellent preservation of soft tissues in its fossils, so the bubbly bits were actually quite well preserved, if maybe a bit squished and deflated.
galoisghost@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Thanks. I looked it up.
You saying these are bugs tickles my funny bone imagining a metre long anomalcaris scuttling out from under the fridge, like a scene from a Cronenberg movie.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Life got pretty boring after following the last mass extinction. So many mammals came out of that mouse which survived that we all have the same basic features from hamsters to humans.
Neon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
okay, but seriously, why did they evolve so differently than modern-day fish? and if we magically reintroduced them, would they be more fit or less fit than modern-day fish?
pyrflie@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]maynarkh@feddit.nl 11 months ago
It’s so cool to think we are living in an era of modern superfish, which would absolutely destroy any other fish that ever lived, since fish were upgraded over millions of years to where they are.
ImInLoveWithLife@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I am not a biologist or really anyone with any authority on the matter. Just some guy who likes to read and think about all manner of subjects, so I cannot adequately explain anything here, but if you’re interested in the why, it really boils down to the simplicity of morphological structures early in the development of life on earth, to more complex as evolution did its thing. That’s not to say that evolution has a goal, just that added complexity often means greater advantages. Also, it isn’t as though nothing similar to these creatures exist at all. These basal forms were a prerequisite to the life we see in the oceans (and on land) today.
Definitely stay interested and read more about morphology and evolution in general! Fascinating stuff.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
One of the big advances around then was being able to be an effective predator at all. It’s likely one of the big causes for the Cambrian explosion was the arms race to not be eaten vs being able to eat your neighbors effectively.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was the N64 era of evolution.
azi@mander.xyz 11 months ago
First one looks like an urchin with pattern baldness
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.de 11 months ago
My first thought was “a brain with blades in it” and now I wonder how different our answers in a Rorschach Test would be…
TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 11 months ago
In my mind the brain blades can extend and retract wolverine style.
olafurp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was a different meta back then. Bottom right is as apex predator
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 11 months ago
It’s just a phase.
CptEnder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Early devbrach alpha build, balancing and design got implemented through testing.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You know what they’re doing? Their goddamned best.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Or, just like dinossaurs, we don’t know how they actually looked like because fossile records only contain bones.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Other tissues can become fossilized but it’s less common as the conditions need to be just right. That’s how we know some dinosaurs had feathers and what their skin texture was like.
Cambrian genera like Hallucigenia completely lacked bones and we have numerous fossils of them from deposits of shale. That’s how we know what they looked like: tiny Lovecraftian horrors.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They were figuring shit out so we don’t have to.
embed_me@programming.dev 11 months ago
Tatakae
Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 11 months ago
My favourite is Sharovipteryx with the wing on its hind legs.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
thanks for introducing me to natures thigh highs.
bbuez@lemmy.world 11 months ago
OP acting like they got a chance against #1 smh…
#3 still lives today in the form of night terrors, seriously wtf is that thing?
Classy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Honestly 2 gets me. Hallucagenia!
HopingForBetter@lemmy.today 11 months ago
What an unusual shrimp.
nihilomaster@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I could swear I have built all of those in Spore at some point.