• nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 days ago

    Crustaceans: Crab

    Mammals: Weasel Crab

    Plants: Tree Grass. Everything grass.

    Amphibians & Reptiles: Unchanged because they are perfect Crab

    Birds: 360° around back to dinosaurs First of all, avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs. Secondly, 360° doesn’t really make sense, probably they meant 180°. Finally, crab.

    Fungi: I shan’t speculate on the affairs of gods.

    Moral of the story: You might not like it but decapods are peak animal evolution. All roads lead to crab.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      Secondly, 360° doesn’t really make sense, probably they meant 180°.

      It makes sense if you consider birds to be a mid-360° position of dinosaur evolution. They started at “classic” dinosaurs, pivoted to the avian variety, and will continue to pivot until they return to their classic form.

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      3 days ago

      Plant evolution is anything but stable. They keep evolving and devolving from weeds to trees and back every few 100 generations.

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        4 days ago

        Hopefully, in a less destructive and more symbiotic manner. As much as I have a grudge against odorous house ants, I wouldn’t wish cordyceps on them, much less our future crab descendents.

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      4 days ago

      360° could be implying they are already that and that they’ll go through some cycle from being modern dinosaurs into future dinosaurs, but remaining much the same at the start and end positions. Or they were one of the many that never did understand angles and degrees during geometry 🤷‍♂️

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      4 days ago

      you seem like an expert and I was actually wondering this yesterday while I was out on a walk cause I tend to think about silly things. So Theropods evolved into birds right? what about Sauropods or like Triceratops? or did they just go extinct

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        4 days ago

        Groups never evolve into something. Species do.

        Theropods are a group comprising a lot of species.

        There was one species of theropod that evolved a few characterics we associate with birds. They evolved into a few species and some of them evolved into yet more species. They’re at the origin of the whole bird group.

        See it like a tree with branches branching out with many branchss just getting cut short. One of that branching branch is the bird group, and it’s on the branching branch of theropod.

        And yes, the branching branchs that are Sauropods and Ornithischia were all completely cut at the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction 65 million years ago.

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        4 days ago

        These are actually questions that I’ve asked and done digging about in info sources on. I’m sad to report that it does appear that only descendents of theropod species appear to have survived. :(