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TranscriptionA series of Tumblr posts. The first on is by avagarde and it reads “It's so unfair i don't get to see where evolution will go in 50 million years.” geekysteven responds with “crab.” The last post is by Existentialmemes and it reads Crustaceans: Crab, Mammals: Weasel, Plants: Tree, Amphibians & Reptiles: Unchanged because they are perfect, Birds: 360° around back to dinosaurs, Fungi: I shan't speculate on the affairs of gods.”

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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Ungulates - Even MORE stomachs.

Cetaceans - why not even bigger?

Cephalopods - Starships and philosophy and tragic poems about how short life is.

Bivalves - even less brain, brain make feel bad, brain bad

Felines - Find and domesticate the nearest dominant life form

Murmurations of birds and schooling fish - Horrifyingly surreal swarm intelligences that can take the shape of things like pointing fingers and signs to communicate or a big pair of cartoon scissors that chase you.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 hour ago

Please go on

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

I've also heard kangaroo

[–] gergolippai@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

I'm upvoting, but in the end, it's cocroach.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Anteaters also seem pretty popular with mammalian evolution.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 hours ago

Until the ants evolve into anteatereaters it's the smart play, free protein all day

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Can't blame 'em tbh

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago

Echo location ant eaters

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago

Only unfair if your not gonna be 70 billion years old, boom gottem.

[–] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Dalvoron@lemmy.zip 14 points 23 hours ago

I took it as meaning birds are currently at 180 from dinosaurs and a further 180 will return them to dinosaur status, completing the full 360.

[–] belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It’s part of the joke because birds are already dinosaurs