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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So the meme isn't about Snakes but limbless lizards that look like snakes

[–] anise@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I might be misunderstanding but isn't that how this works? As I understand it carcinisation doesn't actually turn for example lobsters into crabs, it just makes them crab-shaped

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Exactly. The meme doesn't say that they turn into crabs but uses the correct term of carcinisation. Tree is a term about morphology, nothing to do with clades. So snakes is the odd one out because it does describe a monophonic group. Lizards don't turn into snakes, they just look like them.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago

That’s how I’m reading it at least.