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[–] prayer 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're looking at a photo of a horseshoe crab. Still very much alive and complete.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but like, what if their ancestors were different and they just evolved it all away?

[–] Nahodyashka 3 points 1 year ago

They're arthropods, so in terms of the appearance in the fossil record, it's pretty much what they are completely. Idk how far you wanna go in terms of evolutionary ancestry, but they've conserved most of their featured for a quite a long time: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.00098/full