How big of an evolutionary blind spot do we have because all the fleshy things were never fossilized?
>>5109039we basically know nothing of anything that lived in the open ocean due to the fact there are animals whose entire evolutionary line evolved into eating corpses on the ocean floor, bones and all.
>>5109039that's part of the enterprise,we can't possibly get to know ALL of it
Crazy thought but perhaps life was never as diverse as we assumed
>>5109039it makes me sad knowing that i'll never know what sort of creatures lurked in the depths of the superocean back when pangea was around
>>5109039The fossil record has to be like 1% complete. Just look at how many species exist in this one period of time
>>5110474Honestly it's a miracle we have the amount of fossils we do
>>5109039In terms of evolutionary history, fossils are entirely optional in the age of molecular genetics.
>>5110494So how do you find all the fleshy things?
There was some Rogan tier octopi are aliens bcz no fossil record about 10 years ago. Around the same time he was pushing mushrooms on everyone
>>5109039What do jellyfish think about
>>5110494Only for things that survived, you lose all information about branches that died off, which may be discernible through fossils or other traces.There is no single tool for understanding.
