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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago

They shouldn't have evolved blood that's useful to humans, really pretty short sighted of them

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Is there any consensus as to the internal organs/stuff which maybe doesn't fossilize well? Like, did they just evolve a bitchin' chassis but they're constantly tinkering with the internal bits?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In truth, the modern horsehoe crab is different than its ancestors, just not as much as usually occurs in several hundred million years. So Frank was really more like, "Eh, maybe a little, but not much."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Fossilisation has a bit more to do with deposition conditions than the creature itself. It's why we know next to nothing about jungle dinosaurs and ones around mountains. Most of our knowledge comes from marine and wetland dinos.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

They would most likely look the same but there are still evolutionary changes deeper in the DNA that aren't visible like metabolic and digestive functions. A modern horseshoe crab would not be able to reproduce with one from a 100 million years ago despite looking virtually identical.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

"Nature abhors a vacuum, and anything that is not a crab."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or a crocodile.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Crabadile - the ultimate lifeform.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They are the tastiest life form.

They are also the ultimate in that field.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Triops: tiny freshwater horseshoe crab looking guys. You can buy their eggs for cheap online and raise and breed your own. Easier and cheaper than SeaMonkeys.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Nature did make it the sexiest creature

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do not the crab

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I will the crab

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Please do not the crab

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I already the crab.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The crab it is

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

You may not like it, but this is what peak evolution looks like.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Survival is a war and they have won

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

cuts them in half for their yummy blood

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sort of a testament (ha) of the stability of it's niche.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

that pun was divine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Nature's Frying Pan

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

“How’s work’n the Ordovician era, Frankiiieee?” “‘sarright” “Poor Frankie…”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I strive to have that level of self acceptance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

makes toxic-bacteria-detecting blood like a boss