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

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Here's a direct link to the journal article.

Summary: phylogenomic study found that Hexapoda (insects, springtails, headcones) is a sister clade to Remipedia (venomous, cave-dwelling "crustaceans"). So it's basically the same that happened with birds and dinos, except with bugs.

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[-] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Shrimps is bugs.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

More like bugs are shrimps. Like, some shrimps are closer to bugs than to other shrimps.

(...wait, does this mean that insects can undergo carcinisation? It would be cool to see.)

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

reject bugs

returne to shrimps

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