🗑️ 🧵 is insect the most sophisticated land animal

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:55:28 UTC No. 16448583

insects are most tolerant of land?
it seems water disguss them
no insects in oceans

human origin:
>fish (requires water at all times)
>amphibian (requires moist environment ut has lungs)
>lizard, no longer requires moist but lays an egg where developing lizard is inside a liquid
>bird (this is not an ancestor of humans)
>placental mammals (baby is in a womb but is surrounded by liquid)
>humans (are placental mammals)

it seems humans arent in terms of developing, not so much land creatures as we like to think

how about insects then?
>first insect rises from the ocean 400 million years ago
>never returns to the sea ever again (there are no insects in the sea today and never has been any fossil found of sea insect)
>330 million years later the first metamorphosing insect is born and is a land animal
>400 million years of land evolution away from water
>insect egg is not filled with water
>insect larva doesnt have gills
>insects breathe air at all times
>the only exception is things like dragonflies whose larva infact do breathe oxygen straight from water (fresh water not salt water)
>adult dragonfly drowns when he drops to water though
>dragonfly is 300 million years old it simply survived to this day so it represenets ancient insect form anyway