Covergent Evolution

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14 Comments

trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 1y (6 replies)

They all have one more thing in common: They understood that leaving the oceans was a bad idea.

Yankee_Self_Loader@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Lungs were a mistake

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y

We needed to bring the ocean into our eyes to see

Fenrir@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Same.

FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y

“Have you seen what’s going on up there!? Go back to the ocean” -John Evolution in his 1964 speech

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y

it's a good thing that the oceans never left you. you carry them inside you everywhere you go. blood is salty because it's a simulacrum of the ocean that we once surrounded ourselves with.

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 18 pts · 1y

Shark --> shark

<3

Microw@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Why does it look like the reptile ancestor and the mammal ancestors had offspring together?

thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz · 10 pts · 1y

That's what you get for going warp 10.

xwolpertinger@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Where is the missing land shark?

Checkmate, biologists /s

Zerush@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y

They work in Wall Street and Insurances.

sga@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 1y

I knew that sharks were always perfect. Why don't we have a equivalent of shark-inisation (akin to carcinisation fro becoming crabs)

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

also chimaeras, the old ancient shark looking fossiles, are related to chimaraes rather than sharks. 300+million years ago.