• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    He didn’t. All but one of his diverse descendants were wiped out along with the dinosaurs, relatively “recently”.

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      2 months ago

      I mean if you want to suck the fun out of it only 4/22 of horseshoe crab species survived.

      Saying any species not evolving for millions of years is a misnomer anyway. A living fossil only superficially resemble ancient species. Since both nautilus and horseshoe crabs are considered living fossils I thought it’s a fair comparison.

      But this is a silly little comic ultimately about the existential dread of modern human life so this level of pedantry isn’t needed.