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had a nightmare last night where I made a typo on a tumblr post

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are ammonites a sort of missing link between gastropods and cephalopods? since they're basically squids with snail shells? or are cephalopods just really derived gastropods?

no, ammonites were regular degular cephalopods as much as a squid or an octopus is today, they weren't a missing link of anything.

and cephalopods aren't gastropods, but both cephalopods and gastropods are mollusks! they love on opposite sides of their family tree:

mollusks are one of the very oldest and most diverse classes of animal life on earth, so it's not too surprising that they invented some bizarre standout characters in that timeframe! the very first cephalopods roughly 500 million years ago were basically a weird ball of snot with a shell that was jussssst starting to figure out this whole arms and eyes thing:

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(WIZARD HAT)

over the next 500 million years, different branches of the cephalopod would eliminate (octopus) internalize (squid, cuttlefish) or embiggen the external shell (ammonites, nautiluses) as suited their specific needs.

and they're only going to get weirder from here

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He is indeed a guy

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City trailer got me like

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hey. good luck with everything, okay? [cutting the rope connecting your boat to the dock] just good luck. [starts pushing your boat further towards the stream] just have a good luck out there

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look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons

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naked: normal naked

naked with shoes on: super naked

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old gods becoming earth

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spell of the unown

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Favorite Wayne clip probably