• @jaybone
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    1316 hours ago

    Crab people, crab people.

    • @Brickhead92
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      612 hours ago

      Taste like crab, talk like people.

  • @[email protected]
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    It’s the same reason both bats and birds have wings.

    This article is trash. It’s been established for a long time that bats have wings to frighten criminals.

    the tasty king crab that’s coveted as a seafood delicacy, aren’t even technically “true crabs.”

    I’m not ready for this today.

    • @DokPsy
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      1011 hours ago

      Man, you’re not going to like the technicalities of what is and isn’t a penguin…

      • @LovableSidekick
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        712 hours ago

        I would call it mislabeled, since it’s called crab but wasn’t made to imitate crab.

  • @expatriado
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    convergent evolution is such a head scratcher, nature is full of puzzles, like how humans became to dominate this world, yet a human allegedly wrote the title of this post

      • @Tronn4
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        2023 hours ago

        *Titties

        • rigatti
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          2723 hours ago

          TIL why do words keep evolving into titties?

          • DrSleepless
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            2422 hours ago

            Because everyone likes titties

            • @Tujio
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              2021 hours ago

              World cold and hard. Titty warm and soft.

  • Flying Squid
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    3423 hours ago

    They keep evolving into pigs too.

    Peccary:

    Tapir:

      • Flying Squid
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        1422 hours ago

        Thanks, I knew there was at least one more. I feel like there’s something else I’m not thinking of as well but I can’t place it.

        • @expatriado
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          1421 hours ago

          I feel like there’s something else

          yes, pigs

        • @[email protected]
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          319 hours ago

          IANAS, but it sure seems like most of these pig fuckers just went fully off-road genetically as soon as their two main external sphincters formed during mitosis, and focused everything else afterward on that core concept: Eat & Shit. (punctuation optional; creative emphasis, arrangement, spelling, etc. promoted)

    • @[email protected]
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      313 hours ago

      I like that it kinda implies that animals are spontaneously becoming crab often enough to be a problem.

      • @DokPsy
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        311 hours ago

        I mean, when you start categorizing things by phylogenetics instead of phenetics, you realize that certain body plans happen a lot more than expected.

    • @seaQueue
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      113 hours ago

      Drill a small hole and you can scratch it

    • @ooliOP
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      Ok, when we’re at 100 comments about the tittle, I will finally edit it

  • @Allonzee
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    723 hours ago

    I’ve also heard kangaroos are further evolved, or more distinctly evolved, from our common ancestor than us.

    No claws yet though. Having a biological pocket is cool.

  • Blackout
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    824 hours ago

    I want to be one of those crabs that form a conga line and swap shells.