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You Might Think of Shrimp as Bugs of the Sea: But Bugs Are Shrimp of the Land (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

And cockroaches are the lobster of the kitchen cabinets. I wonder if they taste similar.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

So, basically:

Crustaceans is like reptiles, a paraphyletic group that does not include a whole clade
Pancrustacea was coined to include the crustaceans and hexapoda (insects, bristletails, coneheads, springtails)
The sister clade of Hexapoda is the Remipedia clade. The remipedes are really weird for crustacean standards, as they're venomous and live in caves

I still predict the last common ancestor of all hexapoda to be terrestrial, because this might explain why the Hexapoda got so bloody huge - it found/founded a niche no other Pancrustacean was adapted for, and it spread like crazy.

[–] RuthBaderGonesburg@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Bugs is shrimp?

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Cucumbers are the sea cucumbers of the land