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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cambrian seems like heavens design team didnt have an established meta and were just having fun with it. Once the horse design got approved the engineering team got lazy and used it as the base for everything.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I think the technical term for animals with that horse design is Chordates

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Chordata is the third-largest phylum of the animal kingdom (behind only the protostomal phyla Arthropoda and Mollusca) and is also one of the most ancient taxons.

Seems legit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, like sea horse