Challenge: Evolutionary history of your favorite modern animal/plant

[MeargleSchmeargl]

 

 

What evolutionary info can we cobble together about our favorite animals and plants? Take it away!

 

P.s., I'll post mine later, since it's kinda dark AM right now.

[doushantuo]

I'd better stay out of this thread,since I don't have "favourites"

Meargl: you realize you've created a pretty extensive brief here?

[Manticocerasman]

1 hour ago, MeargleSchmeargl said:

 

What evolutionary info can we cobble together about our favorite animals and plants? Take it away!

 

P.s., I'll post mine later, since it's kinda dark AM right now.

That cephalopods should have ruled the world  

 

[FossilsAnonymous]

48 minutes ago, Manticocerasman said:

That cephalopods should have ruled the world  

 

Then there would be none to hunt!

[Manticocerasman]

4 minutes ago, FossilsAnonymous said:

Then there would be none to hunt!

well if they were the domminant and intelligent lifeform they could have dug up fossil cephalopods.

But would that count as paleontology or archeology to them? 

[FossilsAnonymous]

15 hours ago, Manticocerasman said:

well if they were the domminant and intelligent lifeform they could have dug up fossil cephalopods.

But would that count as paleontology or archeology to them? 

Hmmm...  Grave Robbers?

[Miocene_Mason]

Too many animals to choose any one favorite. But my favorite evolutionary history is that of our own species. There is something enchanting about being able to  look at one’s eldest ancestors and picture their lives and their deaths, and their contributions. One wonders how much we take from them, and what makes us different. Rather, what makes us human. We also have one of the most well-researched family trees of any species. As of right now there are a bit over 20 hominin species, the number changes depending on how you split or lump. I find them all incredibly intriguing.

[ashcraft]

15 hours ago, Manticocerasman said:

That cephalopods should have ruled the world  

 

They did.  The dominant predator in early paleozoic oceans.

Brent Ashcraft

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 6/24/2019 at 11:18 AM, Manticocerasman said:

That cephalopods should have ruled the world  

 

I think that's a typo or auto-correct, or something. 

I'm sure you meant to type, "brachiopods".