• TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    Coelacanth started going with them then stopped, figuring horse shoe crab knew what was up

  • banazir@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    They are the true blue bloods of the animal kingdom, they are already at the pinnacle.

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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      2 months ago

      Crocodile, shark, pill bug... They're all creatures that are now famed as "living fossils". Even looks like a coeleocanth fin in one of the panels.

    • mathemachristian [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      The implication is that the crab is content with it's life but the spawn of some of those seeking a better life through evolution ended up miserable, toiling away oppressed by their own kind. A fate no one at the time could have imagined. We are these spawns.