Friday, June 7, 2013

Devolved From Primate Zero

[B]ecause the animal was so small and "active metabolically, it was probably quite a frenetic animal, you could even think anxious. Very agile in the trees, climbing and leaping around in the canopy.
Artistic reconstruction of Archicebus achilles in its tree habitat.
Photograph: Xijun Ni/Chinese Academy of Sciences
No wonder your species is so irksome, w/ the incessant screeching chatter & jumping about; your ancestors were anxious, frenetic, bug-eyed grasshopper-eaters that lived in trees.

4 comments:

  1. That maniac grin is awesome! Definitely an ancestor.

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  2. You know, I see something like this and just get more pissed off at evolution. Seriously, we couldn't have kept the prehensile tail? WTF?

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  3. Insect Editor:
    Not grasshoppers, grasshopper?

    Little beggar looks bite-y, as they say.

    Bad trade, tails for bad knees & worse backs.

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