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14 hours agoI genuinely fail to see why it’s a thing. Like reading up it, it’s basically just convergent evolution of crustaceans to a crab-like shape.
Couldn’t the same be said for a ton of fish-like animals? The many attempts of nature to develop a fish? Hell, even some mammals went back to the fish, plan, although with the tail-fin the wrong way and having to visit the surface to breathe.
Or large-ish mammals all having pretty much a similar bodyplan, four limbs, head and neck.
Like surely there’s something so specific in carcinisation that I just haven’t picked up on yet. If someone know what it is pls inform me.
Did you know humans are more closely related to catfish than catfish are to dogfish?
QI | No such thing as a fish
Yeah, I can see that. But also it’s swimming in water. Then again if tou want to crawl around the bottom? Hexapod is probably the way to go. But then you also need to be able ro manipulate shit, so frontlimbs become bigger.
Like a lot of space vehicles meant for surface exploring, both imagined and real, are usually six-wheeled, probably for added stability in a rocky terrain where there’s a bit less gravity and sometimes storms and whanot. And what is it like on the ocean floor? Rocky, basically “less gravity” and odd flows like storms.
Idk there’s a bit more to it I guess, I’m just looking for what that bit is, or if there indeed is one.