Coevolution Memes

Nature's most brutal trash talk happens in slow motion. That rough-skinned newt is basically wearing a "try me" t-shirt with its toxic skin, while the garter snake is just casually slithering by with immunity like "whatever, dude." Millions of years of evolutionary one-upmanship reduced to gaming insults. The newt evolved enough toxins to kill dozens of humans, but the snake evolved resistance, creating this bizarre biological stalemate where neither can claim the evolutionary high ground. It's natural selection's version of two siblings poking each other in the backseat while mom (Mother Nature) is driving and getting increasingly annoyed.