Convergent evolution
Re-Evolved
Submitted 3 months ago by Lisk91@sh.itjust.works to science_memes@mander.xyz
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DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Truthers: birds aren’t real in the first place
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
bad strategy considering it went extinct in the first place
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Thr sinking of your habits can do that to you, otherwise it has a good evolutionary niche.
Also, the flying ancestors are still around, so if anything happens they can come back in another 20 000 years.Shou@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sounds like it wasn’t his time yet.
Tilgare@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It went extinct because the sea levels rose and the island it inhabits was entirely under water. Honestly, we’re headed that direction - they might be in trouble again in relatively quick order.
expatriado@lemmy.world 3 months ago
revolving dove
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
That’s one determined bird. Evolution killed you? Just evolve again
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
One does not simply defy evolution.
It didn’t.
It evolved to be flightless because it was useless on an island with no predators, it drowned when the sea levels rose and covered the island, it’s closest relative (from whose ancestor it had evolved) flew back to the island once the sea levels fell, it evolved to be flightless because it was useless on an island with no predators.
It’s evolution all the way down.
pigup@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is a particularly unhinged image. Fantastic.
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 months ago
“Aldabra went under the sea and everything was gone,” Julian Hume, paleontologist and author of the study, said in a press release from the Natural History Museum in London. “There was an almost complete turn over in the fauna. Everything … went extinct. Yet as the Aldabra rail still lives on today, something must have happened for it to have returned.”
It swam.
jezza@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Don’t birds float?
just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
No you are confusing them with witches
rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Just ducks.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
Even if they could float, and reach the coast, they’d have immediately gone extinct due to not being adapted to having predators and being outcompeted by their flying relatives.
finickydesert@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
8 parallel universes ahead of us
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I knew a guy when we were both in final year of a biomed bachelor. He was a creationist
Don’t know how he went that long without finding something that challenges that viewpoint
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 3 months ago
I’m sure he found a shitload of stuff that challenged that viewpoint.
…and then proceeded to completely ignore it
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The sheer aptitude they had for ignoring information is commendable
They should become a politician
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Like what kind? Believing in higher powers doesn’t have to mean that you don’t belive in evolution/natural adaptation taking place over time.
If it was “God made everything and nothing changed” then yeah I feel you
tyler@programming.dev 3 months ago
Creationists believe the first. For example I’m Christian, but not a moron, so I don’t believe in creationism.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 months ago
They specifically said he was a creationist though. Not just that he believed in a higher power.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Two sets of facts for different purposes. Just like how we know that the stars are only a few miles away, but for the purpose of science they are millions of miles away.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
As long as the teacher understands their own lesson from the students work it doesn’t matter that the students doesn’t actually grasp what its about
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I mean, I’m in a medical course so… yes it does matter that students understand a fundamental concept all life is based on?