PRE-Cambrian my dude. The Cambrian explosion of life is associated with conventional body plans.

Ok but now we have taxes and seasonal depression, so, like, who really won that game?

God was overwhelmed with the editor and just kept hitting "randomize".

Look at human mechanical inventions from, say, 1900-1930. Same deal.

Everyone was doing weird shit in peaceful mode, just vibing and experimenting, and then that FUCKER on the bottom right turned on PvP. Being festooned with knives is how they said "I'm tryna get these nutrients, don't @ me."

Basically what my creations in Spore looked like.

A brain covered in knives does kinda seem like a sleeper S tier build

.... and it was all by chance and luck

I'm sure that there are planets all over the galaxy where the same or similar creatures evolved and didn't get wiped out but instead evolved into higher animals.

Our lineage was lucky to go on to create humans because all the other ones got wiped out in the Cambrian for some reason.

If those same creatures had survived, they would have evolved into more unique forms of life and we would have called them aliens.

Funny part is, those same creatures I suggested that might exist in alien worlds might one day run into us and look at us like some kind of weird animal that might have evolved out their own planet's Cambrian extinction event.

All of us had ancestors hunted by one or more of those

tbf there are some pretty weird looking creatures in the ocean even now. Like, would the giant deep sea Isopods really look that out of place next to stuff like Anomalocaris? We still have plenty of spiky worm shaped things living on the bottom of the ocean. And for the softer side of animals, would things like siphonophores really look that out of place in a lineup of Cambrian fauna, if placed there and shown to someone who wouldnt have the knowledge to recognize what they actually were?

Cambrian seems like heavens design team didnt have an established meta and were just having fun with it. Once the horse design got approved the engineering team got lazy and used it as the base for everything.

These are all immensely powerful evolutions. We got the Knifey Tortoiseshell, Cheval De Frisetipede, Sucky Long Mouth Humpback Trilobite and Sabertooth Flatworm. All the greats!

To be fair bottom right ended up an apex predator for a while

look like my last creatures from the spore

They look like organs