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isopods are friends (mander.xyz)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pill millipedes (looks like Glomeris marginata) vs isopods (some Armadillidium species as it can roll up into a ball). Incredible case of convergent evolution

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

holy cow, I was today years old when I found out they weren't the same family.

i thought both pictures, top/bottom, were an interesting factoid where they are crustaceans... you mean to tell me the top one is a millipede?! my life is a lie.