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[–] Geek_King@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

How many of known animal species are crabs? I keep hearing about how frequently different lines of animals evolved into crabs, that they have a word for the phenomenon; Carcinisation.

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

About 20% of all mammals are bats and 40% rodents

[–] notepass@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rodents are neat tho. Lil neverending knawing potatoes.

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. I have 3 of them at home

[–] notepass@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

3 female gerbils. Pilvi, Päivi and Peppi

[–] notepass@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

yooooo gerbil. Fast lil fellas.

[–] green_witch@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this make beetles the crab of insects? Convergent evolution is neat.

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

That’s pretty cool, I had no idea.

I was camping about a year ago in a tropical country. There was this shiny emerald green color. It really really cool.