xD This is beautiful, I'd love to see these conversations happen honestly they sound fun

lol, you have no idea - according to my friend group, it's genuinely entertaining when something involving biology, old legends about monsters or creature design sets me off. It's even more funny when it's in text format.

I get you, like some people are like this is why dragons can't work because nothing on our planet has six arms and I am like actually most insects have six arms also just because they don't work here don't mean that there isn't a planet out there with them. What is possible and what we know are vary, different things usually.

haha yeah, I'll never understand how some people can just be that closed-minded about nature. Like, just look at the platypus, or the bombardier beetle, or the giraffe, there's TONS of animals out there that have some absolutely buck-wild adaptations. And heck, even the stuff "normal" animals have evolved over time can be surprisingly complex - like the insane amount of stuff that goes into what makes elephants so big without collapsing in on themselves, or what makes horses so fast and strong, which...now that I think about it, is kind of weird, because horses can break a leg and basically be considered a lost cause unlike other creatures.

You'd think horses have so many health problems because we bred them like pugs, but in reality horses were honestly fucked up when we found 'em. Nature doesn't care if something works WELL, just that it WORKS, and there's plenty of animals that express this kind of thing, including horses. Fun fact, their habit of being simultaneously hardy and fragile at the same time lead to the invention of veterinary medicine, and then human medicine, because people's horses kept getting health problems from literally everything and people started thinking "this horse medicine sure does medicate horses, wonder if it works on people..."

For cuter examples of a creature doing its best at survival and accomplishing the bare minimum of surviving long enough to reproduce, see the Virginia opossum and the pumpkin toadlet, which is an orange frog so small that it has a ruined sense of balance due to the inner ear being too small to function and therefore every time it jumps it ragdolls in a way that's too funny and endearing to ignore.