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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Hate that fucker! Because of him i have to go to work every day!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If they invent the backwards time machine I'm gonna go kick this fucker back in the ocean. I could be eating thousands of brine shrimp right now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Counterpoint: If it weren't for this mf, we'd all be working underwater!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

that sounds dope as FUCK

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah dolphins seem pretty happy. Though idk the ocean is scary

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

This a no bone zone.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The image looks like our distant ancestor there is crawling in from another dimension, the way the water still encloses its body so high up... or at least like it portaled over from a deep ocean part of the ocean floor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

and one eye looks like its on top of the head.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe the artist just screwed it up, but there's a snake species that really does have eyes positioned like that, on top of its head. Arabian sand boa:

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

That snake looks dumb as hell. Evolution really fucked with them. It looks like a puppet made by a child when you just describe a snake and they've never seen one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

:(

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unless that snake is endangered it is doing just fine and is adapted over millennia to be built that way and thus live it's best life

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Yup, it's so it can hide under the sand and still see prey.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

On behalf of the snake: no u

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Honestly a bone head move, great job tikatalik you putz

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hot take, it wasn't well adapted and that's why it's not around anymore. Trash animal

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yo homie that's my great-great-great-...-great-grandpa that you're talking about

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Also true of ~75% of plant and animal species that didn’t survive the Chicxulub impact about 66 million years ago. I mean, if you can’t survive an extinction-level event, tf are you even good for?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

If he doesn't do "I'm a half tetrapod half fish. Of course I...." snippets with half-hearted throwaway jokes he can go extinct for all I care!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

FUCK YOU TILTAALIK

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Hey man thats just rude :(

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I do not know about you guys, but you know, this issue keeps me awake at nights.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds like kids these days need to watch more LindsayNikole videos.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Alternatively, Gutsick Gibbon or Forest Valkai

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie it feels a bit strange that my great great great grandpa was a fish.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

5 generations to fish. It seems your family reproduces once every 75 million years on average.

That feels higher than usual for humans/fish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

We eat a lot of yogurt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Does all land vertebrates come from the same ancestor? I found surprising that only one species were trying to colonize the land.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I think this was specific to tetrapods, though I don't know if there are any land vertebrates that aren't descendants of tetrapods.

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/what-are-evograms/the-origin-of-tetrapods/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There's a great metal album about it, Charlie Griffiths - Tiktaalika

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Just forwarded it to my sons, spread the awareness!