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Why did evolution return some animals to the water?
- bediger4000 1y agoThe paper is pay walled, but there's something wrong with the phylogenetic tree diagram in this PR article. Looks like they have a triceratops as ichthyosaur ancestor, and maybe a turtle as plesiosaur ancestor. A very obviously fully aquatic animal is in the "ambiguously aquatic" ichthyosaur line. A front leg of a mosasaur ancestor gets expanded into a hind leg. Is this an AI generated diagram? If so, shame on them for either not noticing the wrongness, or being sloppy and leaving it in.
- gus_massa 1y agoThe style of the diagram looks quite similar to the graphical abstract, https://www.cell.com/cms/10.1016/j.cub.2025.10.068/asset/269c1b25-a823-4f69-98e1-3a095742b65b/main.assets/fx1_lrg.jpg https://www.cell.com/cms/10.1016/j.cub.2025.10.068/asset/269... so it may be not-AI.