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• AnIntenseMoist@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Considering horses (and thus horseshoes) came way after the horseshoe crab, we really should rename the horseshoe to “crab shoe” or something and “horseshoe crab” to something else. Ideas welcome.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m in favour of renaming horses to crab feet.

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    • casmael@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I was gna say something like this - the crab is on the other foot, if you get my drift

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  • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agree, they are not Horse shoes, nor crabs

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      angry hissing crab? nah that’s all of them. alexa how do you say pointy butt crab in esperanto?

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• sylveon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not how evolution works. Today’s horseshoe crabs may look very similar to their ancestors hundreds of millions of years ago, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t evolve. I know it’s just a meme and not that serious, but misconceptions about evolution seem to be very common and I think that’s a shame.

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  • alcibiades@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apologies for ignorance, but what changed about them? Is it that they’ve been evolving over millions of years, which is why they can survive in today’s world (even though they look the same).

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Basically that; I’d imagine their immune systems are more complex nowadays just because the threats are

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    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Similar to how humans and apes have a common ancestor, the horseshoe crabs would have an ancestor which looked very similar to today’s version, although slightly different, and some of them would have evolved into other things while some remained relatively unchanged.

      From what I can tell, arachnids might share a common ancestor with horseshoe crabs, which is kinda crazy to think about.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      their genome would look different if nothing else, different genes causing the same features.

      i’d imagine there are all kinds of tiny tiny differences, like the shell changing shape and behaviours altering over time so they don’t get horribly confused as the earth changes shape.

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  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Every animal in the comic should be a horseshoe crab.

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We need to see a subtle shift where one more character evolves into a crab between each panel of the comic.

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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I see a trilobite and an ammonite in there, did those guys even leave any evolved descendants before they went extinct?

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  • Pringles@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, but those also went extinct.

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• neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Except Nautili still exist today

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    nautilussies

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• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nautilus having second thoughts …

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• Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cool thanks, we’ll be back for your blood!

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The horseshoe crab denied evolution, so we’ve begun to forcefully take their blood sacrifice instead

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• halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This reminded me to sit up straight.

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