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by ncmncm 1778 days ago
Let me know when you spot an animal that drives around on wheels.
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Physically you could have wheeled animals, but wheels just won't evolve. They are perfect for somewhat smooth surfaces where you want to travel in a somewhat straight line. Organisms just cannot confine themselves to that and survive.

Unless we find a planet composed entirely of solid smooth rock we won't find wheeled animals.

How would wheels get fed with nutrition? Would they have tiny mouths?
Gears have evolved, though, which is equally cool IMO.
Half-gears.
rotifers
Rotifers do not, in fact, have wheels.