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| Spec the pacific tree octopus; Yes, I know it's a hoxe but still... | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 16 2010, 05:03 PM (1,178 Views) | |
| sam999 | Apr 16 2010, 05:03 PM Post #1 |
Adult
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Let's find out just what this thing is... |
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| Pando | May 8 2010, 02:29 PM Post #16 |
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They can exist in a steaming hot swamp like in 120 MYF Postozoic. Terrestrial octopi seem right, they sacrificed their streamlined shape to become more terrestrial. So they might become the next animal to dominate the land. But squid are a bunch of mumbo-jumbo on land. |
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| Holben | May 8 2010, 02:30 PM Post #17 |
Rumbo a la Victoria
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How do your octopi adapt? I wanna knock 'em down. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Pando | May 8 2010, 02:31 PM Post #18 |
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Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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They have chitin, which can be used as an endoskeleton. Life always finds a way. |
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| Holben | May 8 2010, 02:32 PM Post #19 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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No it doesn't. See every extinction in history and the collapse after it. How did they evolve this chitin, then? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Pando | May 8 2010, 02:35 PM Post #20 |
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Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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They already got it. Check their beaks. |
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| Holben | May 8 2010, 03:18 PM Post #21 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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Yes, their 'beak' genes have a little bunch of alleles which make chitin. But they're a long way away from the others. BTW, how would the cephies move, support themselves, and reproduce under this? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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