Orson Scott Card was right*.
*About one particular thing.
In Speaker for the Dead?
Yes, piggy.
There are just so few optimal solutions to the same problem.
It’s also why we should always try to copy nature when it comes to technology.
I think its even wilder to think about that sharks existed prior to trees
Sharks also existed prior to Saturn’s rings
And Polaris! (the North star)
Do you mean before the star itself existed or before its position became the north star?
Polaris is only up to about 70 million years old. So, technically it’s likely to be way younger than the rings of Saturn, but it’s still crazy to me to think that a star was just… not there until it showed up one day, and sharks were there well beforehand.
Coral are trees.
The word “tree” just describes a plant phenotype, nothing more
I thoughts snakes are all related?
So the meme isn’t about Snakes but limbless lizards that look like snakes
That’s how I’m reading it at least.
It is worth noting – as someone who’s reasonably knowledgeable about arguably the main example, king crabs – that carcinisation is really interesting, but I think some people took the meme semi-unironically as this especially widespread example of convergent evolution.
In reality, it’s confined to some members of the true crabs’ sister infraorder, Anomura. Which is still super cool, but even the faintest notion that crabs are some singularly ideal
male bodybody form is just a runaway shitpost.What meme?
This one. It’s easy enough seeing these, if you’re not familiar with the subject, to overzealously think that this is a widespread phenomenon.
There’s also anteaters
There are anteaters! Well done!
Big if true
Small if false
Medium if ambiguous
Asymmetric if uncertain
