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Amazing for a species which—baring the box jellyfish—have absolutely no brains.

• Ygg2 13y ago
  I think the article implies that we helped it... a lot. Unless you count poison, which isn't that special. Lots of plants use it.
  • nwh 13y ago
    They've not had our help for tens of millions of years though.
    • Ygg2 13y ago
      That is besides the point. I think you'd agree that condition now and millions of years ago were quite, quite different. They were held in check by various predators, we eliminated. Shells weaken by acidification of ocean have put new new sort of organism on their menu (or weakened their prey). The fact that our efforts of only several decades/centuries could return jellies to a state that was 10 million of years ago is astounding.
• ISL 13y ago
  Bacteria do pretty well without brains too.