Just think of the Cambrian as Life doing an open alpha test or an early access release.
LEAVE 👏 CAMBRI 👏 ALONE
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
They look like an average Spore creation. We have sword meatloaf, spiky hotdog, spaghetti mouth, and Bob.
nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 8 months ago
Spore should sue for copyright infringement!
Rooskie91@discuss.online 8 months ago
Leave them alone, they’re just products of their environments!!
Assman@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Why did swords sticking out of brain need to evolve?
multifariace@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months ago
you dont need camoflauge look at that pokey-eye mf’er
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months ago
Anomalocaris means “weird shrimp” so I get the feeling the Cambrian freaks out the nerds sometimes, too.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My favorite ancient critter is Omnidont which means “all teeth”.
Floodedwomb@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The first picture is actually just an ancient router.
deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 8 months ago
linksys brainswordianos
flan@hexbear.net 8 months 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 8 months ago
Wiwaxia, Hallucigenia, Tully Monster and Anomalocaris if anyone’s wondering
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
The aliens we were imagining as children? We are way past that.
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s not a phase mom
ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well someone hasn’t played Spore.
BluesF@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months ago
It’s just a phase mom!
Mannimarco@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago
It’s just too easy for them to run into their own tail. It’s kind of sad, really.