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Species? Surely they would diverge over the timescales involved...

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species is probably the wrong word. maybe genus or phylum. apologies for the rusty biology.

but sharks have been sharks for 400 to 450 million years.

I'm sure sharks are terrestrial in origin, but that's an intergalactic timescale during which very little evolutionary change occurred, or was necessary, for a particular category of creature.

maybe tardigrades have been tardigrades for 450 million years too.

And maybe evolve into the dominant life or civilization. It may turn out that upright bipedal “5 star” form is very conserved in advanced civilizations. So maybe you have the Lion people planet, the lizard people planet, the wolf people planet. We are the chimp people planet haha :)

We're the lizard people planet that appears to be a chimp people planet.

lol but why trade being lizard people for chimp people? are we ashamed?

No, we're the chimp people planet that's been taken over by disguised invaders from the lizard people planet.

They even made a TV show about this back in the 1980s, called "V".

Exactly

Hahaha. Maybe, maybe. But what if (at least some of) the lizard people are actually not from another planet but are from an alternate timeline dimension of Earth where the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event didn't happen and it was reptiles that evolved into a "humanoid" 5 pointed upright form? o_O

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