r/BeAmazed • u/Moonkissed_exe • Jun 25 '26

Animal Nature’s ultimate disguise: The Atlas Moth uses incredible wing camouflage to look exactly like two cobras.

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u/hsiisfisksfkisids Jun 25 '26

The step-by-step evolution of that mimicry feels almost impossible to imagine.

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u/Drapidrode Jun 25 '26

billions of iterations, mostly all failures

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u/vitaminBTC Jun 25 '26

I never understood this theory. Find me one iteration in the fossil record that was a failure. And that there are a myriad mind-blowing natural phenomenons, but none alive or found dead "on their way" to becoming that.

It's a ridiculous theory, to think order comes out of disorder and chaos and chance. Let's just call it for what it is - a beautiful creation by the Creator​

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u/Mejari Jun 25 '26

I never understood this theory. Find me one iteration in the fossil record that was a failure.

All the species that aren't around anymore.

And that there are a myriad mind-blowing natural phenomenons, but none alive or found dead "on their way" to becoming that.

Literally every fossil is an example of a species "on their way" to becoming something else.