• adam_y@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Don’t mean to make this all serious but sure you could talk about how god or a designer was just playing around or you could think about how the environment and the selective pressures were different during this period of the planet’s history.

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      60 seconds ago

      This befote the META became all about efficientely killing everything while wearing armor. This the ptelapsarian world before the spinal catastrophe.

      After that point, you can’t just “be yourself”, you’ll just get ganked. So everyone started putting all their point in attack and defense, variety massively got reduced and everyone became a servitor of Moloch while existing only so that the mindless universe could suffer the pain of its own entropy.

      Guess what I’m saying is we’re in the bad place!!

  • Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    PRE-Cambrian my dude. The Cambrian explosion of life is associated with conventional body plans.

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    13 hours ago

    Everyone was doing weird shit in peaceful mode, just vibing and experimenting, and then that FUCKER on the bottom right turned on PvP. Being festooned with knives is how they said “I’m tryna get these nutrients, don’t @ me.”

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    16 hours ago

    … and it was all by chance and luck

    I’m sure that there are planets all over the galaxy where the same or similar creatures evolved and didn’t get wiped out but instead evolved into higher animals.

    Our lineage was lucky to go on to create humans because all the other ones got wiped out in the Cambrian for some reason.

    If those same creatures had survived, they would have evolved into more unique forms of life and we would have called them aliens.

    Funny part is, those same creatures I suggested that might exist in alien worlds might one day run into us and look at us like some kind of weird animal that might have evolved out their own planet’s Cambrian extinction event.

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    15 hours ago

    Cambrian seems like heavens design team didnt have an established meta and were just having fun with it. Once the horse design got approved the engineering team got lazy and used it as the base for everything.

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        12 hours ago

        Chordata is the third-largest phylum of the animal kingdom (behind only the protostomal phyla Arthropoda and Mollusca) and is also one of the most ancient taxons.

        Seems legit.

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    16 hours ago

    tbf there are some pretty weird looking creatures in the ocean even now. Like, would the giant deep sea Isopods really look that out of place next to stuff like Anomalocaris? We still have plenty of spiky worm shaped things living on the bottom of the ocean. And for the softer side of animals, would things like siphonophores really look that out of place in a lineup of Cambrian fauna, if placed there and shown to someone who wouldnt have the knowledge to recognize what they actually were?