Random Thoughts

[Demosthenes]

Bowser is a koopa. Bowser has scales. It can be inferred that koopas as a species have scales. How many reptilian animals do you know with beaks? Koopa's have digits. The digits we see on each arm-like appendage is four. Tortoises have four digits. You could argue that they are a beaked lizard of some sort, but that still has more in common with a fucking tortoise than a hermit crab.

[Salodin]

Bowser is a koopa. Bowser has scales. It can be inferred that koopas as a species have scales. How many reptilian animals do you know with beaks? Koopa's have digits. The digits we see on each arm-like appendage is four. Tortoises have four digits. You could argue that they are a beaked lizard of some sort, but that still has more in common with a fucking tortoise than a hermit crab.

Koopas appear to have a more of a malleable carapace/exoskeleton than scales tbh. Bowser is a koopa canonically I concede, but he is always illustrated as being more evolved in some way and I'm not gonna keep koopas from their truth cause of it. Reptiles don't have beaks, or at least not often, but they often have a beak like protrusion that lets them break out of shells. Also, strong doubt they are cold blooded unless they're one of those weird warmish blooded reptiles which again, strong doubt, as they function just fine in cold weather and hunt in any condition they find a mario in.

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[Salodin]

Not saying they don't have commonalities with tortoises, but the spine not being fused to the shell is a huge yuge detraction and enough to classify them as a different animal more in common with such shell removing practices.

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[Demosthenes]

Not saying they don't have commonalities with tortoises, but the spine not being fused to the shell is a huge yuge detraction and enough to classify them as a different animal more in common with such shell removing practices.

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Your argument was that they had more in common with hermit crabs when they have exactly ONE thing in common with hermit crabs.

[Day]

them mfs be turtles yo

[Salodin]

Your argument was that they had more in common with hermit crabs when they have exactly ONE thing in common with hermit crabs.

On the evolutionary timeline, koopas would be closer related to hermit crabs than tortoises, even if koopa and tortoise evolution led them to develop similar traits.

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[Day]

you ever seen a hermit crab my dude

[Salodin]

I'd even go further and say Bowser is lying when he claims to be a koopa. We've seen what grown koopas look like, they're fat and unwieldy, but not bowser looking. We also know what bowser's children look like, which is not even close to a koopa troopa even tho similarities exist. They really might not be the same species

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[Day]

smokin on that shit that got them saying koopas are hermit crabs

[Salodin]

My shit hits different that's why I'm always surprised y'all say you go through ounces so fast lol

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[Demosthenes]

On the evolutionary timeline, koopas would be closer related to hermit crabs than tortoises, even if koopa and tortoise evolution led them to develop similar traits.

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No they'd be lizards that found homes to crawl into. They'd have more with fucking tortoises as reptiles than they would hermit crabs. What are you on mate?

[Demosthenes]

I'd even go further and say Bowser is lying when he claims to be a koopa. We've seen what grown koopas look like, they're fat and unwieldy, but not bowser looking. We also know what bowser's children look like, which is not even close to a koopa troopa even tho similarities exist. They really might not be the same species

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Bro, he literally had spare shells he chucks around. Koopas aren't limited to koopa troopa my guy!

https://www.mariowiki.com/Koopa_(species)

[Demosthenes]

I know we're talking about fictional evolution, but bro, did you pass biology?

[Salodin]

Bro, he literally had spare shells he chucks around. Koopas aren't limited to koopa troopa my guy!

https://www.mariowiki.com/Koopa_(species)

Koopa shells or his own? Bowser has no problem sending lesser creatures to their death.

Them having digits and a beak doesn't make them more related to tortoises when tortoises have a fused spine to their shell, something all tortoises and turtles share but no koopa does afaik. Beaks don't make them more related to reptiles when even animals like octopus have beaks; convergent evolution is a thing

https://www.google.com/search?client...e-gws-wiz-serp

Sorry, mobile link :3 and yes, I'm a biology major lol

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[Day]

i aint never seen a koopa with a claw, so lets just say that cancels out their ability to come out of their shell, do they look like a fuckin turtle or hermit crab to you?

[Salodin]

It's not just popping out of their shell tho, they are specifically illustrated without many of the similar features bowser has like scales, which would lead credence to them being reptiles like tortoises if they had that. They really appear to have more of a carapace situation going on ala crabs, but without a cooked koopa or koopa dissection, it'd be hard to tell. Strong doubt that they are cold blooded by the fact that they still hunt in cold weather too

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[Day]

bro you really think this is more like a koopa



than this?



boy you are retarded lol

[Fondue]

im not reading all of this but claiming that koopas are not turtles is certainly a retarded take

[Roranora]

do the goombas all get a shoe shine before being deployed into levels

[Day]

some of the koopas fly must be a bird