They shouldn’t have evolved blood that’s useful to humans, really pretty short sighted of them
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Submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 10 months ago
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 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?
samus12345@lemmy.world 10 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.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 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.
BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 10 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.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Nature abhors a vacuum, and anything that is mot a crab.”
Cagi@lemmy.ca 10 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.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nature did make it the sexiest creature
yamanii@lemmy.world 10 months ago
01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 10 months ago
You may not like it, but this is what peak evolution looks like.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 10 months ago
Survival is a war and they have won
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 months ago
cuts them in half for their yummy blood
Midnitte@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Sort of a testament (ha) of the stability of it’s niche.
crawancon@lemm.ee 10 months ago
that pun was divine.
Gork@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Nature’s Frying Pan
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 10 months ago
“How’s work’n the Ordovician era, Frankiiieee?” “‘sarright” “Poor Frankie…”
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
makes toxic-bacteria-detecting blood like boss
moistclump@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I strive to have that level of self acceptance.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
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