LEAVE 👏 CAMBRI 👏 ALONE

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• Mannimarco@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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

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  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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??

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.”

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  • HairyHarry@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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!

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    • ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      It’s just too easy for them to run into their own tail. It’s kind of sad, really.

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• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Just think of the Cambrian as Life doing an open alpha test or an early access release.

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• Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  They look like an average Spore creation. We have sword meatloaf, spiky hotdog, spaghetti mouth, and Bob.

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  • nichtburningturtle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Spore should sue for copyright infringement!

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• Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Leave them alone, they’re just products of their environments!!

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• Assman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Why did swords sticking out of brain need to evolve?

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  • multifariace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      you dont need camoflauge look at that pokey-eye mf’er

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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

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• spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Anomalocaris means “weird shrimp” so I get the feeling the Cambrian freaks out the nerds sometimes, too.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    My favorite ancient critter is Omnidont which means “all teeth”.

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• Floodedwomb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  The first picture is actually just an ancient router.

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  • deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    linksys brainswordianos

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• flan@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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• iflyspaceships@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Wiwaxia, Hallucigenia, Tully Monster and Anomalocaris if anyone’s wondering

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  The aliens we were imagining as children? We are way past that.

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• BugleFingers@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It’s not a phase mom

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• ObsidianZed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Well someone hasn’t played Spore.

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• BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It’s just a phase mom!

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