Unstoppable

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh dear god. I’ve never bothered to read much into the anatomy of horseshoe crabs until today, and I had no idea they have an array of photoreceptors along their telson (the long, tail-like segment). That’s so creepy.

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  • schildfrosch@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    there’s something about non-fishy, non-mammalian sea creatures that makes them have photoreceptors fucking everywhere. look at starfish or some octopuses for example. or any other genus really

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• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why bother? I’ll just end up re-carcinizing later.

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  • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep, evolution always ends in crabs.

    If you are already there, why bother?

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    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Millions of years from now, they tell each other tales of the brief flicker of time when primates with delusions of grandeur captured them and drained them of their blood. But the primates aren’t around anymore. Nothing is, besides the horseshoe crab, watching the remains of the oceans dry up, as the sun grows larger and larger in the sky.

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  • AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Remember when red blood was all the rage?

    Oh man, that fad takes me back

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    as life returns to crab, so does crab return to AAA GET IT OFF GET IT OFF

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• MTB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Existed for millions of years before horses. Named after hunks of metal nailed to horse hooves.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What did they call them before horseshoes?

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    • MTB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know, I’ve never asked them.

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    • SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I met one called Dave once. Lovely guy

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    • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wendy

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• StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I looked up to see how these suckers taste, and they’re actually pretty gross looking inside, idk I’m adventurous but I think I may have found my limit

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• lauha@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Horseshoe crabs have been described as “living fossils”, having changed little since they first appeared in the Triassic around 250 million years ago, and similar-looking fossil xiphosurans extend back to the Ordovician around 445 million years ago.

  If you extend the truth a bit. :)

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• BigBrownDog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Horseshoe crabs got it alllll figured out.

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I looked up if once they really haven’t changed at all since the earliest fossils, and they actually have - just not by very much.

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• deus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” in animal form

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• BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Crocs did it better

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