c/science_memes · by fossilesque@mander.xyz · 1y

Hummingbird Moths

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10 Comments

Lurkinney@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Convergent evolution has got to be the coolest shit in biology, it's ceaselessly fascinating

but also evolution can be fucking horrifying: barnacles are crustaceans, slice them in half and you see a twisted gross crablike thing inside the shell.

kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y

Also like shrimp to fairies

Azuth@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 1y

And lobsters are scorpion mermaids.

Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

While nobody is looking Hummingbird Moth is making a speed run to crab.

b34k@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I wonder how they taste sautéed in butter and garlic…

Soku@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Fuzzy

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

i want to live in a world where all insects ended up fluffy and cute like these moths and bumblebees are.

fossilesque@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1y

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agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Is it us, or it that's messed up?

carbonari_sandwich@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Bee of the Bird of the Moth.

carbonari_sandwich@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

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