Tetrapod Memes

Time travel question: "What would you do with a time machine?" Meanwhile, this person's answer is to go back 375 million years and poke a Tiktaalik with a stick. You know, that critical fish-tetrapod transitional species that crawled out of water and eventually led to all land vertebrates including humans. Nothing major, just casually disrupting the entire evolutionary timeline that led to your own existence! Who needs complex paradox theories when you can just boop your ancestor on the snoot and potentially erase yourself from history? Darwin would be having an aneurysm right now.

Behold, the Tiktaalik—evolution's brave little pioneer who dragged itself onto land 375 million years ago so we could eventually evolve thumbs to scroll through memes and play Fortnite. This fish-tetrapod transition fossil is basically getting a standing ovation from the very appendages it made possible. Talk about a delayed gratification feedback loop! Next time you're using your opposable thumbs to order late-night takeout, pour one out for this ambitious little creature who had no idea what evolutionary chaos it was unleashing.