Sniffers Evolved Into Both Chickens And Sea Turtles

[novel kayak]

So, basically this theory revolves around the idea that the previously thought to be extinct sniffers actually ended up evolving into the sea turtles and chickens of the Minecraft world. Of course, this is assuming they get into the game.

[vernal willow]

Huh

Idea

[tender crag]

Mammals evolved from reptiles. And the sniffer looks like a mammal like reptile. So they are probaly a bridge animal like the platypus irl.

I think tho that the possibility that the turtels are closely related to sniffers or sniffer having evolved from turtels is not small

Simply because the sniffers look biologicaly the most similiar to an turtle

[novel kayak]

Well, they have the shells, their eggs look surprisingly similar, but they make mention of chickens which confuses me.

It's like, they give us hints of it's nature, but it looks like a turtle, and that shell on its back makes me more confused.

They also have a beak

[tender crag]

Turtels also have beaks

And the platypus also has a beak and is often confused to be related to birds. Even tho its a bridge animal betwen reptiles and mammals.

[novel kayak]

Yeah, I have a feeling it's like, the ones who remained on land turned into chickens and the eggs being buried under water were forced to adapt (E-turning into sea turtles)

[tender crag]

There are no sea sniffers

Look at them, they have feet made for walking on land not for swimming

Also something dosent evolve from a reptile into a mammal like reptile and then back to a reptile

[novel kayak]

What are you talking about? The eggs are in ocean ruins

[tender crag]

(Now that I think about it. Them being hexapods is so special that they probal arent mammals, birds or reptiles, but its own thing)

[tender crag]

To be more precise, in ocean ruins chests

Meaning somebody brought those eggs into the chests

[novel kayak]

Yup, I suspect the "ancient builders" are far more ancient than we make them out to be.

Also, I want to note that the sniffer has a shell, which is exclusive to few animals, mostly sea faring. I say it's very likely based on their characteristics that when their young were under water, over time, the animals inside were forced to adapt to the environment.

[tender crag]

Also the amount of flur they have would make them get a cold rlly quick if they get wet

[tender crag]

What shell ?

[tender crag]

Yk there are alot of ancient animals that are still alive irl

Like turtels, sharks, crocodiles and snakes for exampel

[tender crag]

And even now extinct animals existed at the same time as human civilisations in the past

For exampel the mammoths were alive at the same time the pyramids were build

[tender crag]

Also ancient builders is a terribel name, since nothing suggests they were ancient or oriented to/specialised in building. Lets just call them humans, because they are litterly just humans

[novel kayak]

Well, yeah, that's true, I just call them what others have called them

[novel kayak]

I do want to say that said animals also went through evolution and are effectively different. Those are just animals that have made the littlest amount of evolutionary changes to themselves "Same thing with the coelacanth."

[novel kayak]

I mean yeah, but they were literally called ancient in the trailer. in-fact they're technically extinct without our help.

[astral parrot]

the sniffer was suppose to have gone extinct not to long ago, right?

like, it’s found in shipwrecks, which themselves can’t be that old

[boreal juniper]

could be convergence evolution, also where did the extra limbs go?

[tender crag]

I am speculating that the sniffer evolved from the turtel

Not the oposit way around

But we need more information on the sniffer

And we only get it when its released

[boreal juniper]

hm, aquatic land animals rarely evolve back into land dwellers, but it could make sense

[tender crag]

We litterly evolved from semi aquatic animals ._.

[boreal juniper]

you have a point but i mean that land animals who return into water and then come back is rare

[novel kayak]

Hehe, yeah whales are kind of weird evolution wise

[boreal juniper]

it happend 4 times

no, 5

[novel kayak]

Yeah, whales are just kind of the first thing that popped into my head

[boreal juniper]

completely fair

[boreal juniper]

but why chickens?

[novel kayak]

Hey, sorry for the heavily late response. Ok so basically in the actual trailer, they're compared to chickens, and they happen to have a yellow beak, which is only a trait that that some species of birds have.

They've done similar things with the warden, and other mobs before.

[tender crag]

There litterly wcist turtels with a yellow beak ._.

Also tiny agnis said that they arent birds

[novel kayak]

Dinosaurs weren't birds

Not technically

They just evolved into birds

[novel kayak]

There's one, and it's the box turtle, and it doesn't really even have a yellow beak

It's the box turtle

Also, fun-fact, birds and turtles are related

[astral parrot]

so are humans and sponges

[novel kayak]

Actually, that's pretty cool

[astral parrot]

all life on earth is related

[novel kayak]

At some point in time, yes.

But I was meaning that turtles are most closely related to crocodilians and birds, which is funny because when I learned that, I thought it was just convergent evolution

I'm not saying that my theory is correct (in-fact I don't believe it at all) I'm just saying that it's just what I noticed and thought I would call out.

[boreal juniper]

definition of a bird: a dinosaur who can fly, or is a descendant of a flying dinosaur

they aren’t more related than we are to them, but they are closer to crocodiles than we

sorry for the german text

Schildkröten = turtles; Schlangen = snakes; Eisechsen = lizards; Krokodiles = crocodile; Vogel= bird and Säugetiere = mammals

[boreal juniper]

because it was convergent evolution. it would need the carnivorous dinosaurs to have a beak too, which they dont have

[boreal juniper]

for this to happen all dinosaurs would need to have a beak

[autumn ice]

Bruh what is Sniffers

[boreal juniper]

the new mob

or you mean what group they are?

[novel kayak]

I can give you links to studies if you want

[novel kayak]

Also I want to note the birds are reptiles so that's not true at all.

[boreal juniper]

so are dinosaurs

[boreal juniper]

k

[novel kayak]

Hold on, I'm going to have to DM them to you because they're not posting on here.

[winter fable]

true

im thinking sniffers are a branch from a early archosaur

[ancestor of modern reptiles, dinosaurs which birds evolved within that group]

sniffers kind of look like Psittacosaurus

but with more grass like fur

http s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psittacosaurus

also not much of a tail

on the sniffer

psittacosaurus does have a beak like the sniffer

[pearl basin]

the Minecraft evolutionary tree is finally taking shape wow.

[winter fable]

i have my own theory regarding if ancient builders and villagers descend from a ancient primate and ways to find out that common ancestry tree but thats offtopic for this

[astral parrot]

well that can’t be that early

they are found in 19th century style boats for christ sake

either those ships are thousands to millions of years old, or the sniffer is not as ancient as we’re thinking

but once it wins the mob vote and is added, we can’t really know everything there is about him

[novel kayak]

The thing is, they're made out to be "ancient by Mojang" that's what they're saying at least.

[astral parrot]

Until we get more info about sniffers (and when the community votes them into the game), we can’t really say for sure what they mean by that. Maybe “ancient” is just a fun exaggeration to make the mob seem more interesting (much funner than just calling it an “old mob”). Or maybe we are misjudging the time scale when they say “ancient”, after all this word could just mean “old and no longer in existence” within this context

not necessarily the thousands or millions of years old to make evolution into another mob justifiable

[novel kayak]

Of course, i'm not saying their ancient. Honestly I think the sniffers lore isn't going to be revealed in the slightest till they add it in-game. I did want to pose a question though based on details I noticed. For instance, the sniffer could be a mob that lived w/ the ancient mobs of Minecraft but we're hunted to extinction or smth. Idk, well just have to see where everything goes.

[astral parrot]

since sniffers are presumable found in sunken ships (and possibly other man made structures), perhaps this was species that the ancient builders used for some purpose, and for whatever reason this species could not survive without the ancient builders once her civilization collapsed--causing the species to go extinct with her lack of human care

[novel kayak]

Yeah, sounds pretty legit honestly, overall. I think one thing is, we don't really have a timeline of exactly how old everything is in-game.