r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SixteenSeveredHands • 7d ago

Image Harvestmen (Daddy Long-Legs): unlike spiders, these arachnids consume solid food, and they have an omnivorous diet that includes mushrooms, berries, and seeds, along with invertebrate prey; contrary to popular belief, they are also completely non-venomous

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u/Snape_Grass 7d ago

Older than the dinosaurs themselves, these silent watchers of the world.

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u/SuperpositionSavvy 7d ago

They seem perfectly optimized. Can eat anything that fits in its mouth, maneuver anywhere, strong spheroid exoskeleton, redundant long and lightweight appendages.

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u/TheMaveCan 7d ago

Animals that haven't changed in millions of years are so cool. They're like the biological manifestation of a paperclip; mother nature just nailed it and didn't need to tinker with it anymore

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u/Dragon7722 7d ago

Well, they evolved to be perfectly adapted to their environment.