Land squids, why not? They'd be able to overcome the cons of living in the sea and with time be able to get fire going and let things happen from there.
Land squids, why not? They'd be able to overcome the cons of living in the sea and with time be able to get fire going and let things happen from there.
They'd need a shell like snails since they both belong to the mollusc family.
Mollusks cannot live on land. They need to be in water
wut?
Freshwater kills them.
Land squids are crustaceans.
This, just wait long enough and eventually they turn into crabs.
how about a squid with a crab carapace to facilitate landborneness?
Pretty sure that's a dog
The energy required to fight against gravity would be impossible to sustain in nature.
Cephalopods are highly resistant to mutation because they depend on RNA editing for bodily functions. Genetic changes must be much more exact otherwise they're sickly and dying at birth. Nothing else on earth is like this. Cephalopods are not able to withstand "junk mutations" and eventually get something out of them so they barely evolve.
This heavy reliance on RNA editing is a solid argument for intelligent design or intervention existing not for all life on earth, but for some life. In many ways they are clearly intentionally gimped. It's like someone didn't want them developing too early. Brains wrapped around esophagi. Death from mating. It's strange, almost too strange to be arbitrary. It seems that they have put an artificial brake on cephalopod evolution to ensure it only changes when they want to change it, as if they are controlling the timing to guarantee it will become the dominant lifeform. Or more likely - to guarantee it won't. What if current cephalopods are the genetic punishment for a prior civilization's hubris? What if they had to watch their offspring hatch as primitive slugs, knowing they would die out succeeded by mere blobs of organs? What if they had to fade away being told that their progeny was genetically guaranteed to never evolve to their height again and that their lineage was ruined for eternity?
What would it be punishment for? What if the punishers had to cope with a similar event in a great interspecies war and it was revenge? What if they did one worse to the tentacled ones and their ruined progeny at least had evolutionary potential?
I'd read your book lovecraftanon.
either you stole this from some sci-fi story or you're a genius
that does seem likely.
I want more /x/posts like this and less like all the other /x/posts I've seen
take your meds and frick off religious cuck
did you reply to the wrong post again
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Extremely unlikely.
>What if current cephalopods are the genetic punishment for a prior civilization's hubris?
Will the squids be grateful once we unfrick them back to normal, or will they turn us into rna editing monkeys? Maybe, that's what already happened. Human-Squid cruelty cycle lasting for eons.
birds. nigs are just waterballoons with tenatacles, they'd be blown the frick out by a seagull in short order.
clearly they need a exoskeleton.
would just be glorified snails
Basically because they only have a lifespan of around a year at most, I'm pretty sure is the reason.
can't we CRISPR them to be better?
Cephalopods have mechanisms to edit their own genes on the fly.
The real problem that is going to hold them back is the lack of a rigid internal body structure and skin that isn't going to last long out of the water.
There was a paper that got some headlines a few years ago about how an octopus might as well be from another planet for just how fricking weird it is on every level.
Also reef cuttlefish engage in complex social structures. And recently they found two spots off the coast of Australia where there's a a high density of octobros in a really small spot where they have behaviors never observed before like social hierarchies.
They edit their RNA, not their DNA. Also despite what headlines say this occurs in all living organisms and is one of the most evolutionarily conserved properties of RNAs. This is also one of mechanisms that allows our immune system to make a huge variety of antibodies that match virus/bacteria that didn't even exist when we were born. Cephalopds, squids and cuttlefish just do more RNA editing than most animals, in this case they change it to adapt to cold. Nothing out of this world here, just a curious trait of this branch of the molluscs. Also they use the same basic cellular machinery that all living being on Earth use. Don't let misleading headlines fool you.
Fool we can't even CRISPR a vaccine that stops transmission of covid, what makes you think we're capable of that yet?
For real? There’s no way that’s correct.
A year isn't correct, its more like 5 but males die earlier if the have sex. The thing is species that don't live long don't really develop culture since they don't pass on their knowledge
This sounds promising though but Id have to look at the sources.
So giant and colossal squid only live 5 years? That’s an incredible growth rate. I guess they don’t have bones?
Those species may have a bigger lifespan than most other cephalopods. Hence the size. Also squid have spades inside their body which are remnants of their ancestors' exoskeletons.
>they don’t have bones?
They're mollusks, related to clams, oysters, and snails.
Instead of an external shell it grows inside their body.
In squid and octopus its pretty vestigial, but cuttlefish have a big one that makes up most of their back, and they use the density of that cuttlebone to help them with buoyancy.