Just play Spore and you will understand
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Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
chasingtheflow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Was spore worthwhile?
Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Aquilae@hexbear.net 1 year ago
The ones on the right are kinda cute imo
Adalast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Geez, it’s like nobody has ever played Spore.
icetree@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Spore
More spikes is always the correct solution.
merari42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Too few phallic animals for that
galoisghost@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Did they really look like this or were there big fat blubbery bits that didn’t survive fossilisation
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
[deleted]maynarkh@feddit.nl 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
It was the N64 era of evolution.
azi@mander.xyz 1 year ago
First one looks like an urchin with pattern baldness
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.de 1 year 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 1 year ago
In my mind the brain blades can extend and retract wolverine style.
olafurp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It was a different meta back then. Bottom right is as apex predator
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 1 year ago
It’s just a phase.
CptEnder@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Early devbrach alpha build, balancing and design got implemented through testing.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You know what they’re doing? Their goddamned best.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Or, just like dinossaurs, we don’t know how they actually looked like because fossile records only contain bones.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year 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 1 year ago
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They were figuring shit out so we don’t have to.
embed_me@programming.dev 1 year ago
Tatakae
Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 1 year ago
My favourite is Sharovipteryx with the wing on its hind legs.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
thanks for introducing me to natures thigh highs.
bbuez@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Honestly 2 gets me. Hallucagenia!
HopingForBetter@lemmy.today 1 year ago
What an unusual shrimp.
nihilomaster@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
I could swear I have built all of those in Spore at some point.