Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26200221-20151211162449/@comment-24152851-20160221115657

Blaziken rjcf wrote:

For all those complaining about Ultimate Humungousaur's cannons: there are species on Earth, right now, that have developed similar abilities. Given enough time and the right conditions, evolution can do weird things. Like what species? Even if there are some that can fire projectiles, I doubt there are any that can evolve retractable fingers which fire off explosive projectiles.

To evolve something, there has to be a need to evolve it. Humungousaur is already a very strong, tough creature and should be pretty high up on the food chain. I can't imagine what would induce a durable dinosaur like creature to evolve ranged artillery.

Furthermore, evolution works by survival of the fittest. Each generation will have variants, and the variants which fit the environment the best will live on while the others will die. The odds of rocket launchers popping up through natural random mutations seems awfully unlikely. And there's also a pay off, if something is too energy costly, then it will be selected against by evolution. The amount of energy that would be required for the cannons should be phenomenal when compared to regular Humungousaur.