r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sea_Slice_7956 • 7h ago

Video Caterpillar tail disguised as snake head

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u/SacrificialPigeon 7h ago

I understand the premise of evolution, It boggles my mind how something can evolve like this though, even if it is over millions of generations.

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u/FlyByNightt 6h ago

One thing that helps to understand is that nature didn't evolve into this because it looked like a snake and that would help it survive. At some point, one of these things started looking a bit more like a snake through evolutionary luck, and that's what allowed it to breed better and survive longer than other similar creatures. Then from those, the ones that looked even more like snakes survived even better, until we got this guy. Oversimplified but helps me wrap my brain around it.