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[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 89 points 10 months ago

The spore period

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] shatterling@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago
[–] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 42 points 10 months ago

They managed to procreate successfully. Can you say the same about yourself?

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is the peak of evolution. It's been downhill ever since.

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Hard agree.

Some evil cabal intolerant to vast variety of species orchestrated mass extinction so that now we are all this uniform fish-bird things.

I want to go back.

[–] Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Fun fact, prior to the Cambrian explosion animals did not have hard parts. There is a theory in a book called "in the blink of an eye " that some animal evolved eyes followed quickly by the evolution hard parts and the Cambrian explosion. They're were three phyla of animals before the Cambrian explosion and whatever the current number is now I think it's like 28 after the Cambrian explosion which took place in a very short period of time. link to book edited comment to have better search

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Your “link to the book” seems to be a link to a search from that title with a billion results that aren’t the book you’ve described.

[–] Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Go home, evolution, you're drunk... or tripping balls on a heroic dose, sounds more like it.

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Those are images made from the data recovered from their fossils. I guess they didn't look like that at all. If the same process was done with human skeletons we'd have a very good laugh.

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Those are trilobites, part of the arthropod phylum. They have exoskeletons (i.e no inner bones), so they would probably look quite a lot like their fossils. Comparing them to vertebrates like humans (or dinosaurs, or whatever) in this context makes no sense.

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And an exoskeleton can't have anything covering it because... ?

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Because that's what the "exo" part means.

[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's not a phase mom this is who I am