What's stopping me from selectively breeding this into a faux-ammonite?
What is it with cephalopods and evolving spiral shells?
>>5122827What evidence do we have that ammonites shells weren't internal?
>>5122827Starting with a nautilus would be better if they didn't have such a slow growth rate.>What's stopping me from selectively breeding this into a faux-ammonite?We don't know enough about Ramshorn Squids to breed them, nobody had even been able to observe one in its natural habitat until 2020.
>>5122830barnacles on ammonite shells
>>5122828Beats me
you dont have hundreds of thousands of years of free time
>>5122827Scientific Ethics. i.e. you aren't allowed to do anything fun or interesting
>>5122828compact, you dont want to be long, that makes you an easy targetalso a lot of them didnt evolve spiral shells, a lot of them look like trombones or french horns
>>5122855Those all look delicious, I bet they'd fry well.
>>5122941Baculites was a straight shelled one and that fucker just made it past the extinction of the dinosaurs.
>>5122828Just doing the rounds
