So evolution made a blue-tongued skink. What are you going to do, fire it? Yeah, good luck finding anyone else with 170 million years of skink-management experience, assholes.
Source: National Geographic
Look, evolution, everyone has trouble staying motivated sometimes. But when that happens you should probably just take a walk or something; don’t force yourself to make softshell turtles when your heart obviously isn’t in it.
Source: wwf.panda.org
The horned lizard fends off predatory coyotes by shooting five-foot streams of its own blood from its eye. Evolution, please seek psychiatric help.
So these biologists did this study where they tested how well anole lizards can jump off flexible perches. Flexible perches like, you know, branches, which lizards hang out on in the wild all the time.
Turns out that when they jump from something bendy, the lizards misjudge when to push off. Then the perch recoils and hits them in the rear, leading to the ridiculous display of maladaptive motion above.
An animal that jumps off stuff a lot but is actually kind of terrible at jumping? Great work, evolution.
The panther chameleon, an animal that actually exists in the world. Evolution, don’t you think you might be trying a little too hard?
