God was overwhelmed with the editor and just kept hitting “randomize”.
Look at human mechanical inventions from, say, 1900-1930. Same deal.
Leave them be, everyone goes through an experimental phase. They’re just working themselves out. Give them time.
Don’t mean to make this all serious but sure you could talk about how god or a designer was just playing around or you could think about how the environment and the selective pressures were different during this period of the planet’s history.
This befote the META became all about efficientely killing everything while wearing armor. This the ptelapsarian world before the spinal catastrophe.
After that point, you can’t just “be yourself”, you’ll just get ganked. So everyone started putting all their point in attack and defense, variety massively got reduced and everyone became a servitor of Moloch while existing only so that the mindless universe could suffer the pain of its own entropy.
Guess what I’m saying is we’re in the bad place!!
All of us had ancestors hunted by one or more of those
I wouldn’t as much as want to be in the same sea as one of these.
A time where the ways werent as set as now, biologically speaking.
They look like organs
Us much more sensible cephalopods came about at the end of that era and you can see why we kicked those weirdos out of the biosphere.
The first image are still around tho.
Sure, if you want to call that a crinoid. I call it a genetic mistake.
The “mistake” was successful…
Sure, if you want to call that success.
Who’s the ocean creature here, you or me?
The Crinoid. For sure longer than you. 😛
Yeah whatever. You know what I have to say to the crinoids? “Okay, Cabrian Boomer.”
look like my last creatures from the spore
