this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2024
747 points (99.3% liked)

Science Memes

11047 readers
4004 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
747
Before times. (mander.xyz)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
39 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

"Living fossils", still reproducing and subject to evolution, but it's interesting that they still look like the fossils we find of them.

I don't know how many are actually afflicted with the misunderstanding that these living fossils are individually as old as the fossils we find of their ancestors, but I think "they basically haven't changed" and "even through the pressures of evolution which they are definitely not exempt from, they have retained most of their features because they still work" are close enough for a layman.