I don't know if this concept really falls under mimicry. It's more like that time that one bird species:"re-evolved" back into existence. except we weren't there to see it and the bones make us think that we are just missing the fossil record for the in between time frame.
I wonder how well pop-culture references will persevere in science.
Like Lucy, for example. How many people in 10 generations will know about the Beatles?
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TIL about the palaentological concept of an 'Elvis taxon' , where a 'lookalike' species temporarily throws off our understanding of the fossil record | Spyke
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Mimics are real!
And crabs are people.
I don't know if this concept really falls under mimicry. It's more like that time that one bird species:"re-evolved" back into existence. except we weren't there to see it and the bones make us think that we are just missing the fossil record for the in between time frame.
I might be wrong, but I think they meant a DnD mimic rather than biological mimicry.
I wonder how well pop-culture references will persevere in science.
Like Lucy, for example. How many people in 10 generations will know about the Beatles?