🧵 incredible 3D animal plot

Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jun 2024 10:58:53 UTC No. 16260963

there is now 3 different axis:
one shows distance from sponges
(a sea creature that is barely animal as it never moves)
one shows distance from giant ice-medusa
(a sea creature that has transparent diving bell but also huge tentacles which resemble somewhat higher form of cellular cohesion)
one shows distance to comb-jelly
(a thing that is kinda like medusa but actually not at all related to them)

these are the most primitive animals nevertheless

a bunch of advanced animals is compared to these three (large scale gene comparison) and it turns out an octopus fits right in the middle being roughly 50%, 50% and 50% related to all three primitive things

in comparison a human is 85% different from comb jelly
61% different from sponge
55% different from giant ice medusa

(in this comparison a human would be 90% identical to a woodpecker altough such a comparison was not made and is not in the picture)