Just to put some context:
- Predatory scorpions a couple feet long
- Armored millipedes larger than a man; they were probably herbivorous but as the article notes they “would have had few, if any, predators.”
- There is a theory, possibly not real well accepted but it makes sense to me, that trilobites were the creature that way-back-when invented effective predation shortly after evolving vision. (Before which the world was a fairly benign place.) The theory further supposes that the Cambrian Explosion was caused by every other organism on the planet having to scramble not to have their soft blobby flesh munched on at leisure by a limitless army of armored, invulnerable hunters, which they couldn’t see or avoid, but who could see and follow them.
I salivate whenever I hear about these ancient mega arthropods. Like, gigantic and armoured, whatever. But by modern standards, blind and incredibly stupid. And in that atmosphere you’d be constantly so well oxygenated. I don’t know why but I’m convinced these big fucks tasted like lobster.
Why do you find that particular theory about the Cambrian Explosion compelling? I assume mankind is putting a similar pressure on many ecosystems today, so shouldn’t we be seeing that kind of evolutionary explosion happening now?
Humans have only been dominant for a few thousand years. Give it like a million for enough evolution to happen and then ask this question again.
!remindme 1 million years ask this question again
this is the bug equivalent of those memes about wolves becoming pugs
I don’t follow sorry. Could you explain?
I was just making a silly joke and also trying to point out that genetic memory red in tooth and claw stuff is fucking weird.
Like this
But they also became the noble greyhound
Thats about as noble as me flopping off the top bunk of a toyhauler right into the floor.
You’re talking about my daughter here. Tread softly.
Cute, but not noble. Mind ya my hounds are not noble in the slightest either.
