The image looks like our distant ancestor there is crawling in from another dimension, the way the water still encloses its body so high up... or at least like it portaled over from a deep ocean part of the ocean floor.

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

and one eye looks like its on top of the head.

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 months ago

Maybe the artist just screwed it up, but there's a snake species that really does have eyes positioned like that, on top of its head. Arabian sand boa:

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That snake looks dumb as hell. Evolution really fucked with them. It looks like a puppet made by a child when you just describe a snake and they've never seen one.

[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

On behalf of the snake: no u

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

Unless that snake is endangered it is doing just fine and is adapted over millennia to be built that way and thus live it's best life

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Yup, it's so it can hide under the sand and still see prey.

[-] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 months ago

I do not know about you guys, but you know, this issue keeps me awake at nights.

[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

So that's the asshole that started it all.

I have a little gift for him:

spoiler

[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

so many people are saying this

[-] Dippy@beehaw.org 8 points 5 months ago

Hot take, it wasn't well adapted and that's why it's not around anymore. Trash animal

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yo homie that's my great-great-great-...-great-grandpa that you're talking about

[-] don@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

Also true of ~75% of plant and animal species that didn’t survive the Chicxulub impact about 66 million years ago. I mean, if you can’t survive an extinction-level event, tf are you even good for?

[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Honestly a bone head move, great job tikatalik you putz

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sounds like kids these days need to watch more LindsayNikole videos.

[-] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Alternatively, Gutsick Gibbon or Forest Valkai

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

Reject tikataalik who left the water to walk alone on land, accept tiddalik who sucked up the water so all had to walk FrogPog

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Museums Victoria acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung Bunurong peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations where we work, and First Peoples across Victoria and Australia. No, we aren't giving your land back. But we did want to remind you that we stole it. You're welcome.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

FUCK YOU TILTAALIK

[-] titaalik@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Hey man thats just rude :(

[-] Belzebubulubu@mujico.org 0 points 5 months ago

He deserves it! I have to work 10 hours a day minimum wage because he went into land >:(

[-] Norgur@fedia.io 7 points 5 months ago

If he doesn't do "I'm a half tetrapod half fish. Of course I...." snippets with half-hearted throwaway jokes he can go extinct for all I care!

[-] driving_crooner 5 points 5 months ago

Does all land vertebrates come from the same ancestor? I found surprising that only one species were trying to colonize the land.

[-] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

All tetrapods share a common ancestor but the land was already teeming with invertebrate life at the time. Take a look at this handy guide to see our lineage. :)