• Dagnet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        6 months ago

        At the time it was revolutionary, till this day I haven’t seen any attempts at recreating it. I did prefer the earlier 2 stages tho (as in evolution stages), later it wasnt as much fun.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          221·
          6 months ago

          It was more revolutionary the day before it was released than the day after though. That game was my first lesson in not getting hyped about something just based on what marketers were saying.

          The game could have used at least a few more years of baking. The earlier stages were more complete, though IMO even they lacked breadth and depth. But the later ones were disappointing in their simplicity.

  • galoisghost@aussie.zoneEnglish
    30·
    6 months ago

    Did they really look like this or were there big fat blubbery bits that didn’t survive fossilisation

    • Contramuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      39·
      6 months ago

      Unlikely for there to be bubbly bits. These are bugs, so we know their shape because their exoskeleton (which is what fossilizes) is their shape. Fish haven’t evolved yet

      • galoisghost@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Thanks. I looked it up.

        You saying these are bugs tickles my funny bone imagining a metre long anomalcaris scuttling out from under the fridge, like a scene from a Cronenberg movie.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    6 months ago

    Life got pretty boring following the last mass extinction. So many mammals evolved from that mouse which survived that we all have the same basic features from hamsters to humans. So much so that mice are a good experimental model for humans…

      • maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
        19·
        6 months ago

        It’s so cool to think we are living in an era of modern superfish, which would absolutely destroy any other fish that ever lived, since fish were upgraded over millions of years to where they are.

        • Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          12·
          6 months ago

          Imagine the future with megafishs, having evolved… fish nets ?.. and lasers!.. and and barbecues…

          • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            7·
            6 months ago

            It is wild to remember we’re all descended from fish. I mostly refer to our primate tendencies (listen to a kid scream and tell me we’re not descended from apes) but a lot of our parts, like our skeletons, are highly modified fish parts. It’s crazy.

          • maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            I mean, it follows that eventually evolution would produce fauna that would take apart a nuclear submarine in seconds.

    • ImInLoveWithLife@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      6 months ago

      I am not a biologist or really anyone with any authority on the matter. Just some guy who likes to read and think about all manner of subjects, so I cannot adequately explain anything here, but if you’re interested in the why, it really boils down to the simplicity of morphological structures early in the development of life on earth, to more complex as evolution did its thing. That’s not to say that evolution has a goal, just that added complexity often means greater advantages. Also, it isn’t as though nothing similar to these creatures exist at all today. These basal forms were a prerequisite to the life we see in the oceans (and on land) today.

      Definitely stay interested and read more about morphology and evolution in general! Fascinating stuff.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      One of the big advances around then was being able to be an effective predator at all. It’s likely one of the big causes for the Cambrian explosion was the arms race to not be eaten vs being able to eat your neighbors effectively.