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byronius

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7. That is an oddly gorgeous creature.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Feb 6, 2018, 08:44 PM

Feb 2018

I don't know why that is. Shape of the head and eyes.

We have such a vanishingly small extant fossil record. Makes me wish I had a time-viewer and could just scroll back through everything that's ever lived. Wouldn't that knowledge change you? Change the way you perceive life?

Sometimes evolution is less adaptability and resilience than it is plain dumb luck.

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Arachnophobes take heed: this ancient spider had a whip-like tail [View all] Eugene Feb 2018 OP

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Coolest spider ever! n/t Permanut Feb 2018 #5

Looks a lot like a modern whip scorpion ... eppur_se_muova Feb 2018 #6

Great link, thanks. byronius Feb 2018 #8

That is an oddly gorgeous creature. byronius Feb 2018 #7

Thank you SCantiGOP Feb 2018 #9