#evolution memes

[olive-ridley]

All roads lead to Rome, all lineages evolve to CRAB 🦀🦀

[bethanythebogwitch]

Tetrapods: We evolved proper limbs which let us do just about anything we want.

Fish: you fucked up a perfectly good fin is what you did! Look at it, it has arthritis!

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

Life finds away 

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[peregrinethegryphon]

Imagine a future where all mammals have gone extinct in a huge mass extinction event except for bats and a new intelligent species evolves from some other animal group and develops paleontology and starts making memes like

Originals: (1)(2)(3)

[crohniewitch]

[theantiazdarcho]

The Lancetfish is a species that looks like it comes straight out of a realistic fantasy world building project.

[comicexpertt]

Oh my queen. I admire you.

[seonghwadyke]

[skysiren41]

So that new Pokemon present, am I right?

[scarlettjemily]

Gonna tell my kids this was One Direction

[troythecatfish]

[cringecorp]

I’ve been staring at the edge of the water Long as I can remember Never really knowing why

[fuzzycatsblog]

I DIDNT SEE THAT COMING!!!!

[elbiotipo]

Other posts go into more detail on this, but if you ever find a meme-like claim that a certain taxon has "never evolved" since so and so millions of years, it's most likely that, just a meme.

Crocodiles? Land crocodiles were, at many points of history, as common as amphibious crocodiles. In South America when it was a island-continent, they were among the main predators.

Horseshoe crabs? They have a rather well documented evolutionary history.

Sharks? Buddy you aren't even ready to know how fucking weird prehistoric sharks were:

(in order: Helicoprion (ONE reconstruction, we still don't have any idea how it worked), Stethacanthus, Aquilolamna)

Yes, for sure, some life forms have been very successful, I won't pretend the amphibious crocodile body plan hasn't been very succesful and conservative since the mesozoic. Plants are also remarkably conservative (not as much as you'd think, though). But every time you see the "X hasn't changed at all for millions of years, it's the perfect creature!" it's just a meme that obscures real life evolution and diversity.

[thattripleabattery]