🧵 this is where we came from
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Mar 2024 16:37:34 UTC No. 16058287
can you imagine? this is the more recent ancestor of both humanity and birds
tiktaalik and other meme creatures who appeared from the sea 330 million years ago, are very very distant
but this small fellow who lives even today, lays eggs in Slovakia and gives live birth in Finland (Finnish climate too harsh for eggs)
It has the body of a snake, except it has legs (it looks like an ancestor of snakes)
It has the basis of mammalian teeth forming altough its teeth are microscopic and mainly good for crunching cockroaches into mush (it can eat large insects because it can break them into pieces, unlike a frog which needs to swallow everything whole)
Birds have very sad teeth, worse than what the lizard has.
This lizard has earholes which almost look like there is a premise for mammalian ears which came millions of years later, like a patch of skin that kind looks like an earlobe may come out someday
It does not have fur however. It does not have feathers. It is able to detach its tail and grow a new one (but cannot grow back feet)
Nobody knows how long the species have lived.
Maybe a lot more than 100 million years.
They do fine in the north but disappeared from southern parts of Earth due to competition from hundreds of lizard species that dont look like them at all.
In Finland it is the only lizard species whatsoever.
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Mar 2024 21:02:24 UTC No. 16058794
Yes I can imagine
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Mar 2024 22:59:22 UTC No. 16058933
>>16058287
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Anonymous at Tue, 5 Mar 2024 23:30:19 UTC No. 16058971
>>16058287
>can you imagine? this is the more recent ancestor of both humanity and birds
They’re equally closely related to humans and birds as any other lizard
>It has the body of a snake, except it has legs (it looks like an ancestor of snakes)
It’s a lizard, they all look like that. Snakes are more closely related to giga monsters and Komodo dragons than to Lacertas
>It has the basis of mammalian teeth forming altough its teeth are microscopic and mainly good for crunching cockroaches into mush (it can eat large insects because it can break them into pieces, unlike a frog which needs to swallow everything whole)
It’s teeth are just like any other Lacerta
>Birds have very sad teeth
There are no modern birds with teeth
>This lizard has earholes
Nearly all lizards do. They’re the most typical ears a lizard could have
>Nobody knows how long the species have lived. Maybe a lot more than 100 million years
Definitely not, the lizards from 100 million years ago were only similar to today’s on a surface level. The oldest Lacerta are from the Miocene
>They do fine in the north but disappeared from southern parts of Earth due to competition from hundreds of lizard species that dont look like them at all.
They’re one of ten species of Lacerta which are all almost identical looking and one of over 300 species of Lacertini
Stop posting these garbage threads pretending to know anything about evolutionary biology