Dolphins can't breathe in their natural habitat
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Yeah, horses got a lot of design flaws, sure.
But to make up for it, evolution gave them a really amazing cock.
okay, geoduck design flaws because the cock to body ratio
Nah putting the wiring in front of the image sensor is FUCKING DUMB
Octopus supremacy
I don’t know what you mean. How are they better should I just search for octopus eye biology for a lil treat?
Edit: they put the wires behind the image sensor!!!! Octopus on the left vertebrate on the right
Ha I remembered correctly, I was too lazy to double check so I could've looked like a total dumbass.
Anyhow the reason for that is really interesting, something something when did they evolve a brain IIRC
Modern horses were designed by humans. They were basically marked for extinction (outcompeted by cows who occupied the same habitat but can digest grass much more efficiently).
But then humans domesticated horses, bred them to become large enough to ride and spread them around the world.
outcompeted by cows
I'm going to need a source because there are many herbavores in central asia where the modern horse originated (after crossing the Bering straight) which means horses outcompeted the local fauna to establish a population. Meanwhile cows were in southern Asia. So there was limited overlap in habitat.
different niches. cows for food, horses for transport. oxen for heavy transport.
Yes, The OP claimed that horses for transport is what saved them from extinction. But everything he said was wrong. Horses outcompeted the native fauna of Central Asia to become established before domestication AND didn't occupy the same habitat as cows.
The left recurrent laryngeal nerve loops down and around your aorta. This is even true for giraffes.