Crazy animals

[oneiriad]

I mean it - the animals have really been weird as of late, haven't you noticed? First there was the gay penguins, then recently there was killer dolphins, and then of course the great, big, tentacle-loosing squids, and now we're talking about alligator-eating snakes?! Crazy, I tell you, crazy...

Random question to my wise friends-list: Would anybody happen to know what the latest evolved animal species is? Not the latest discovered or something, but actually evolved?

Comments

[soho-iced.livejournal.com]

I have no idea as such, but since the fastest creatures to evolve would be those with the shortest generation time, I suspect it's probably a worm or aphid or something boring like that. Probably somewhere in the depths of the rainforest.

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

And here I was hoping it would be something interesting - like, say, a species of pigeon particularly adapted to charm the breadcrumbs out of the hands of little old ladies and avoiding death by the hands of statue-protecting people...

[porridgebird.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the Batman singing Dolphins!

About the latest evolved animal thing... isn't evolution a process? As opposed to something that has a beginning and an ending and *poof* here's a new species. Or am I way off? (I make no claims of intelligence! or education, for that matter!)

[shrieking-ell.livejournal.com]

bwahahahahahaha

Baaaaatmaaaaaaan!

I love it.

and yes evolution is a process. but at some point in the process, a group or population which used to be part of a species can no longer mate successfully with all the others of that species and *poof* a new species exists. or something like that. Ask the FSM.

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

Ask the FSM
The Federated States of Micronesia? The Flying Spaghetti Monster?

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

Nana nana nana nana Flipper.

That has got to be one of the signs of the Apocalypse or something - after all, we have the sushi dinners crying out for revenge and everything...

[teh-farmer.livejournal.com]

Yes, I totally agree! Even animals get weirder, not just us humans. Sad, really! ;)

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

Sad? Why sad? After all, life would be very dull indeed if a little weirdness wasn't coming our way most of the time.

[teh-farmer.livejournal.com]

;) *hint*

Beware of Sarcasm!!! *snerk*

Fooled you!! Hehe! I love almost every kind of silliness!