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I mean they’re only weird because we’re not used to them, giraffes, narwals and sea-urchins are pretty weird as well.
Not to mention something like the platypus
Oh, how about those furless apes? I heard their offsprings have to be supervised ALL THE TIME for several years or they might kill themselves by accident. Crazy!
Edit: Shit I misread that comment.
Why did swords sticking out of brain need to evolve?
Because up to that point animal life was closer to sponges than anything else. Maybe a moving blob here and there in the ediacaran. Then shit evolved predation, mobility, pursuit sensation… And so what does the blob do? The simplest thing that by chance can change in its dna. And what is that? Hardened spikes with no real anchoring or repurposing. Just swords sticking out of a brain.
Meanwhile someone else is evolving to float around and have the majority of its body mass by stingers and someone else is becoming all of bugs
Great question! Do some science.
I’ll give you a starting place. Consider their mobility, camoflauge, protection, abilities of their predators, habits of their prey, and mating strategies.
The first picture is actually just an ancient router.
Anomalocaris means “weird shrimp” so I get the feeling the Cambrian freaks out the nerds sometimes, too.
My favorite ancient critter (actually pre-Cambrian) is Omnidont which means “all teeth”.
Wiwaxia, Hallucigenia, Tully Monster and Anomalocaris if anyone’s wondering
It’s not a phase mom
The aliens we were imagining as children?
We are way past that.
Well someone hasn’t played Spore.
These just look like normal deep sea creatures. Ever see those videos with the marine biologists talking while they explore the deep with an unmanned submarine? They find weird shit like this all the time.
It’s just a phase mom!
