Hear me out - a crab shaped anteater
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2025
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What the hell is wrong with you
Ok, then. What about an ant shaped crabeater?
I'm not sure if he eats shellfish but..
Who is that and why is his cranium so large?
We truly are in the blurst timeline
Mother of God. The perfect being
How many times have they evolved into grass eaters?
I'm not aware of any ant-eaters evolving to eat grass
Everyone is bighype about carcinization- crablike this, convergent evolutionary pressures that- nobody ever mentions arborification. Did you know that 'trees' evolved independently dozens of times? Trees and crabs, that's what we'll find on alien planets I tells ya.
Crabs that eat ants. The perfect being.
If everything evolves into crabs eventually, wouldn't the next step of evolution be crab-eaters?
The apex crab-eaters would slowly evolve to be more crab-like.
I can only imagine the frustration of early anteaters as they have to leave most of the ants because they didn't evolve long tongues yet.
Like trying to get the last pringles with your hand
Grow boobs, eat ants
It's the easy way out. Ants are always plentiful.
Why does this graph look like the Death Star?
Why didn't any of those 12 times worked?
Good ol' vermilingualization