Spyke

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

Carcinisation (American English: carcinization) is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by L. A. Borradaile, who described it as "the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab".

Pretty neat

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The moth transformation occurs when the cocoon is near a lamp.

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lemmy.world

Aren't shrimp and prawn already the exact same thing?

Like mountain lions and cougars.

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Fondotsreply
lemmy.world

Shrimp vs prawn is colloquial, not a scientific classification, so it varies from place to place and person to person, and depending on the specific animal we're talking about, but in general

The ones we call shrimp tend to:

  • Live in salt water
  • Be smaller
  • Have curled bodies
  • Belong to the sub-order pleocytema
  • Have plate-like girls * gills*

And the ones we call prawns tend to:

  • Live in fresh water
  • Be larger
  • Have straight bodies
  • Helong to the sub-order dendrobranghiata
  • Have branching hills gills
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The organs that aquatic creatures use to breathe

Edit: I see now that autocorrect did me dirty

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kbin.social

Tapirs are one of those animals I always forget exist and am delighted when I am reminded of them.

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That’s shrews for me. They’re like rodents, but way cuter.

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lemmy.world

Female/Male Maine coon cat into male lion look with mane

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Alpaca > Llama > Camel

Yeast > Mold > Brie Rind > Chanterelle

Algae > Fern > Sunflower > Eucalyptus Tree

Squirrel > Raccoon > Bear

Deer > Elk/Caribou > Moose

Cow > Yak > Bison

Magpie > Crow > Raven

Ant > Termite > Bee > Hornet

Tick > Spider > Crab

Fox > Coyote > Wolf

Pillbug > Horseshoe Crab > Armadillo

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lemmy.one

Salamander -> Turtle -> Seaturtle

Duck -> Flamingo -> Ostriche

Pidgeon -> Parrot -> Turkey

Hamster -> Ferret -> Prairie Dog

Chameleon -> Komodo Dragon -> Alligator

Mosquito -> Anteater -> Elephant

Anchovies -> Salmon -> Dolphin

Fox -> Wolf -> Bear

Cat -> Cheetah -> Mountain Lion -> Tiger

Worm -> Eel -> Snake -> Anaconda

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Pidgeon -> Parrot -> Turkey

I think it would be Pigeon -> Parrot -> Pheasant -> Peacock, but then I don't know a lot about Pokemon.

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sh.itjust.works

Bump! Bump! Bump! Did you ever ride a Wump? We have a Wump with just one hump. But we know a man called Mr. Gump. Mr. Gump has a seven hump Wump So… if you like to go Bump! Bump! just jump on the hump of a Wump of Gump.

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lemmy.world

Beetle -> slightly bigger beetle -> slightly bigger beetle

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lemm.ee

Waterbug -> Cricket -> Locust

Fun fact actually, crickets already evolve into locusts in the actual animal kingdom

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lemmy.world

Fun fact actually, crickets already evolve into locusts

No they don't. Are you thinking of grasshoppers, maybe? Although that's not exactly true either.

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Yes, sorry. But yeah, a grasshopper will, during a fertility shortage, go through a transformation and seek out a swarm of its brethren, forming what we call locusts.

They say there used to be more locusts in the US and Mexico than there were in the Sahara, but that when the Gold Rush happened, so many people passed along where the grasshoppers lived that the necessary numbers needed to make locust swarms was reduced by the constant tramplings of passerbies.

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thelemmy.club

I don't know, but you know that big Agra is going to develop synthetic evolution stones to artificialy grow plants and livestock.

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pawb.social

Domestic housecat -> all big cats (like Eevee)

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Now I want to go do an ask pokemon on "if your house cat or dog were an eevee, what would it evolve to?"

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lemmy.world

Cheetah > Puma > Jaguar > Panther > Tiger > Leopard > Leopard (snow variant) > Lion > Lion (mountain variant) > Maverick-

Oh wait, that doesn't work that way at all.

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pawb.social

Lion (mountain variant)

The thing you call a "mountain lion" over there in the US isn't a lion. It's a cougar.

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I am not from the US, but the reason why I called it a mountain Lion is because, these big cats are all macOS version names. That was the joke.

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I think the biological evolution tree or whatever is the name would essentially showcase every evolution known so far 🤔🤔🤔

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