They shouldn’t have evolved blood that’s useful to humans, really pretty short sighted of them
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Submitted 6 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 6 days ago
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago
“Nature abhors a vacuum, and anything that is mot a crab.”
Cagi@lemmy.ca 6 days 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 6 days ago
Nature did make it the sexiest creature
yamanii@lemmy.world 6 days ago
01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 6 days ago
You may not like it, but this is what peak evolution looks like.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 6 days ago
Survival is a war and they have won
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 days ago
cuts them in half for their yummy blood
Midnitte@beehaw.org 6 days ago
Sort of a testament (ha) of the stability of it’s niche.
crawancon@lemm.ee 6 days ago
that pun was divine.
Gork@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Nature’s Frying Pan
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
makes toxic-bacteria-detecting blood like boss
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 6 days ago
“How’s work’n the Ordovician era, Frankiiieee?” “‘sarright” “Poor Frankie…”
moistclump@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I strive to have that level of self acceptance.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
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