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How about a third eye? "The parietal eye is found in the tuatara, most lizards, frogs, salamanders, certain bony fish, sharks, and lampreys...It is absent in m
by vba616 2y ago
How about a third eye?
"The parietal eye is found in the tuatara, most lizards, frogs, salamanders, certain bony fish, sharks, and lampreys...It is absent in mammals, but was present in their closest extinct relatives, the therapsids"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_eye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_eye
You may wish to consult your pineal gland.
- agumonkey 2y agowings
- smoyer 2y agoIt's not all it's cracked up to be - https://craphound.com/someone/Cory_Doctorow_-_Someone_Comes_to_Town_Someone_Leaves_TownA4.pdf https://craphound.com/someone/Cory_Doctorow_-_Someone_Comes_...
- makeitdouble 2y agoWings are so fascinating. Flying animals have their whole body, from their brain, digestive system, down to their bones internal structure and function [0] optimized for flight. That's where we see species giving up flight ability to get a stronger body, and I wonder what it would take for us to do the reverse to be able to use these wings in any way. [0] https://www.montananaturalist.org/blog-post/avian-adaptations/ https://www.montananaturalist.org/blog-post/avian-adaptation...
- konstantinua00 2y agoJust need to go to Titan atmosphere thick enough, gravity low enough
- ChainOfFools 2y agoWe'd definitely have to give up long gestation and with that, live birth, and probably a good amount of cranial capacity due to weight and energy budget tradeoffs.
- jbotz 2y agoHuh? Bats have most of those those, more than most other mammals their size.
- ChainOfFools 2y agoBats do not have the cranial size of humans; that's kind of the point. They may have a loosely comparable cranium to body mass proportion, but allometric mass scaling matters with respect to physiological adaptation, quite a lot[0]. [0] https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRightSize.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwilsdWT6o6FAxVPBUQIHUZHBF4QFnoECBoQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0zcy8CJNvk6sVDBn86rkOR https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRig...
- MagicMoonlight 2y agoIt would be an awful trade. Weaker, dumber, slower. All for something that isn’t very good and we wouldn’t use very much. People would prefer to drive rather than fly because you’ll get soaking wet. Unless you just go around naked or something.
- RobotToaster 2y agoWould make sitting down rather uncomfortable.
- agumonkey 2y agoI'll buy new chairs.
- taneq 2y agoWould be handy for navigating the warp. ;)