If it washed up on the beach. The sea whip coral is technically an animal but you might not guess that.
Convergent evolution
Odd: Koala fingerprints almost indistinguishable from human ones
Researchers compared the fingerprints of three koalas killed by cars, a chimp that died in captivity, and human ones. The koala prints were more like human ones than the chimp’s were.
Convergent evolution of cobra venom
Researchers: “This is the first clear example of snake venom evolving for defence, and provides a remarkable example of convergent evolution, or how natural selection can cause the same solution to a problem to evolve multiple times.” Sure, it all just somehow happens with no underlying intelligence in nature?
Convergent evolution: Tasmanian tiger pups “extraordinarily”similar to wolf pups
Researchers: While scientists have worked out that different animals evolve to look the same because they occupy similar places in the ecosystem, they have yet to explain how animals evolve to become convergent, particularly the forces driving their early development.
In addition to other weird characteristics, the platypus has biofluorescent fur
Talk about convergent evolution. And if the timing of the split is correct, 150 million years was the amount of time available, not half a billion years. … at least one species of tardigrade lights up as well. One wonders how exactly the individual species of tardigrade (water bear) began to do that. What was the time frame there?
Crabs evolved separately at least five times
At Popular Mechanics: It’s not just superficial shape that unifies the five evolved crab forms. The paper details neurological commonalities, shared circulatory systems, and more, while also detailing the organ and systems that differ in shape and size.
Eric Holloway: To what extent does life simply invent itself as it goes along?
Eric Holloway argues that the evidence does not really support common descent, not the way Talk Origins believes and we were taught in school.
What next? A tree that stings? Yes.
Most interesting: “Our results provide an intriguing example of inter-kingdom convergent evolution of animal and plant venoms with shared modes of delivery, molecular structure, and pharmacology.” Plants and animals are not so different after all.
Darwin skeptic focuses on the repeated evolution of the camera eye
Shedinger: But how could a similar series of mutations of the sort necessary to produce similarly structured eyes in different lineages occur so many times independently if the mutations are randomly produced?
Researchers discover deep sea creatures that suck up light like a black hole
In an “incredible” display of convergent evolution, sixteen different deep-sea fish developed extreme light-absorbing qualities, like a “black hole,” for camouflage amid bioluminescence.
Researchers: Toothed and non-toothed (baleen) whales evolved similar features independently
Researcher: “The degree to which baleen whales and dolphins independently arrive at the same overall swimming adaptations, rather than these traits evolving once in the common ancestor of both groups, surprised us,”
Why frogs have such weird skulls
Food for thought: “Weirdly, it’s easier for us to generate beautiful images of skulls than it is to know what these frogs eat,” Blackburn said. “Natural history remains quite hard. Just because we know things exist doesn’t mean we know anything about them.”
Blood feeding evolved independently about 100 times despite being a very complex trait
But still we hear, “There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows.” Darwin, “Life and Letters,” i, p. 278 ? Hadn’t the Darwinists better change their story a bit?
Spiders and birds of Paradise use the same molecular strategy for mating displays
Convergent evolution
Two jellyfish genomes differ “as drastically as humans do from sea urchins.”
So there is no Darwin switch. Different jellyfish converge on moving around via different sets of genes.