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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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  • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They shouldn’t have evolved blood that’s useful to humans, really pretty short sighted of them

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  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is there any consensus as to the internal organs/stuff which maybe doesn’t fossilize well? Like, did they just evolve a bitchin’ chassis but they’re constantly tinkering with the internal bits?

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In truth, the modern horsehoe crab is different than its ancestors, just not as much as usually occurs in several hundred million years.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fossilisation has a bit more to do with deposition conditions than the creature itself. It’s why we know next to nothing about jungle dinosaurs and ones around mountains. Most of our knowledge comes from marine and wetland dinos.

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    • BoxedFenders@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They would most likely look the same but there are still evolutionary changes deeper in the DNA that aren’t visible like metabolic and digestive functions. A modern horseshoe crab would not be able to reproduce with one from a 100 million years ago despite looking virtually identical.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Nature abhors a vacuum, and anything that is mot a crab.”

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    • Addv4@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or a crocodile.

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      • notabot@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Crabadile - the ultimate lifeform.

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  • Cagi@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Triops: tiny freshwater horseshoe crab looking guys. You can buy their eggs for cheap online and raise and breed your own. Easier and cheaper than SeaMonkeys.

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nature did make it the sexiest creature

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    • FGoo@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do not the crab

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      • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I will the crab

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    • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Kani oshi

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  • 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You may not like it, but this is what peak evolution looks like.

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  • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Survival is a war and they have won

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      cuts them in half for their yummy blood

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  • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sort of a testament (ha) of the stability of it’s niche.

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    • crawancon@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      that pun was divine.

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  • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nature’s Frying Pan

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  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “How’s work’n the Ordovician era, Frankiiieee?” “‘sarright” “Poor Frankie…”

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  • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    makes toxic-bacteria-detecting blood like boss

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  • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I strive to have that level of self acceptance.

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