Not everything has to have an evolutionary benefit. If it doesn’t impose a significant malus, random nonsense mutations can just as easily become evolved traits. Evolution doesn’t have a plan, and nature makes frequent mistakes.
This random mutation, which seems to be mostly negative, has to have outbred the standart form to be the widely known hyena today, no? It just seems to be the sorta trait that would disappear along the way.
Not everything has to have an evolutionary benefit. If it doesn’t impose a significant malus, random nonsense mutations can just as easily become evolved traits. Evolution doesn’t have a plan, and nature makes frequent mistakes.
This random mutation, which seems to be mostly negative, has to have outbred the standart form to be the widely known hyena today, no? It just seems to be the sorta trait that would disappear along the way.