Just think of the Cambrian as Life doing an open alpha test or an early access release.
LEAVE 👏 CAMBRI 👏 ALONE
Submitted 4 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
They look like an average Spore creation. We have sword meatloaf, spiky hotdog, spaghetti mouth, and Bob.
nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Spore should sue for copyright infringement!
Rooskie91@discuss.online 4 weeks ago
Leave them alone, they’re just products of their environments!!
Assman@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Why did swords sticking out of brain need to evolve?
multifariace@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Great question! Do some science.
I’ll give you a starting place. Consider their mobility, camoflauge, protection, abilities of their predators, habits of their prey, and mating strategies.
deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
you dont need camoflauge look at that pokey-eye mf’er
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Because up to that point animal life was closer to sponges than anything else. Maybe a moving blob here and there in the ediacaran. Then shit evolved predation, mobility, pursuit sensation… And so what does the blob do? The simplest thing that by chance can change in its dna. And what is that? Hardened spikes with no real anchoring or repurposing. Just swords sticking out of a brain.
Meanwhile someone else is evolving to float around and have the majority of its body mass by stingers and someone else is becoming all of bugs
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Anomalocaris means “weird shrimp” so I get the feeling the Cambrian freaks out the nerds sometimes, too.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My favorite ancient critter is Omnidont which means “all teeth”.
Floodedwomb@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The first picture is actually just an ancient router.
deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
linksys brainswordianos
flan@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
took a little while to figure out that somewhere between four and ten appendages with a mouth on the front and a butthole on the back was the best layout.
iflyspaceships@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Wiwaxia, Hallucigenia, Tully Monster and Anomalocaris if anyone’s wondering
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
The aliens we were imagining as children? We are way past that.
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s not a phase mom
ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well someone hasn’t played Spore.
BluesF@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
These just look like normal deep sea creatures. Ever see those videos with the marine biologists talking while they explore the deep with an unmanned submarine? They find weird shit like this all the time.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s just a phase mom!
Mannimarco@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I mean they’re only weird because we’re not used to them, giraffes, narwals and sea-urchins are pretty weird as well.
Not to mention something like the platypus
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Even snakes are bizarre. We have a creature with no limbs, just a very dangerous head and a potentially very dangerous body, and it uses its skin to move. And they can eat things whole which are several times the size of their head. Seriously, wtf.
Oh and even better, they range in size from adorable little worms to big enough to eat a human whole. And what kind of exercise do constrictors even do to get strong enough to suffocate something that outweighs it??
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Even weirder is that snakes evolved from critters with legs, and multiple times independently. They were like “legs? We don’t need no stinking legs.”
HairyHarry@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oh, how about those furless apes? I heard their offsprings have to be supervised ALL THE TIME for several years or they might kill themselves by accident. Crazy!
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s just too easy for them to run into their own tail. It’s kind of sad, really.