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What makes me lose my sleep:

Trees are extremely iconic and we see a lot of similarities between them, but they’re mostly due to convergent evolution. Plants have been growing that stalk independently over and over and over. Crustaceans become crab-like, mammals become ant eaters, and plants become trees. *carcinisation intensifies*

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vacuumfountain@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If like me you hadn’t heard of mammals turning into anteaters: Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age, study finds

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- Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Great source of protein crawling there across the ground, it’d be a shame if someone wasn’t there to eat it
  
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rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
What do fungi converge into?

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- prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The gods do not concern themselves with convergence
  
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- apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  My tummy
  
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  - rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Truly the peak of evolution
    
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- Ioughttamow@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Party animals
  
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flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
What isn’t iconic in nature though? Plants also have turned into similar looking herbs and shrubs over and over again. Or look at epiphytes! If there is an available niche it will get filled. And since plants all start with more or less the same basics, they fill it similarly. Evolution likes to repurpose stuff.

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