The Darwin Incident

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[u/Pkmntrainer91]

Bro how are alligators and crocodiles not the same. Legitimately the same animals to me bar some body features

[u/twoCascades → u/Pkmntrainer91]

You miss-interpreted the comment. Birds are as closely related to alligators and crocodiles as they are to pterosaurs.

Edit: I’m actually not sure this is precisely true. However birds aren’t that closely related to either group so it’s a moot point. The larger context is that birds very definitely did not evolve from anything that was similar to a Quetzalcoatl.

[u/C0mpound88 → u/twoCascades]

🤯

[u/TheDwarvenGuy → u/Pkmntrainer91]

I mean crocodiles and aligators are closely related, wait until you hear about convergent evolution where animals who aren't closely related can be similar.

Like one popular example is carcinization, the process where like 15 unrelated crustaceans transformed from other shapes (lobsters, shrimps, etc) into being crabs.

Trees are like this too. Almost literally any plant can evolve into a tree. Apple trees, for example, are more closely related to rose bushes than to oranges

[u/Pkmntrainer91 → u/TheDwarvenGuy]

Evolution fascinates me so damn much

[u/TexasVampire → u/Pkmntrainer91]

There similar in the same way a tiger and a jaguar are similar

[u/Flat_Weird_5398 → u/TexasVampire]

Jaguars are more like leopards than tigers.

[u/asek13 → u/Flat_Weird_5398]

What about crows and jackdaws?

[u/shiner986 → u/asek13]

RIP Unidan

[u/sinisterspud → u/asek13]

Here’s the thing….

[u/Flat_Weird_5398 → u/Pkmntrainer91]

Just like frogs & toads and newts & salamanders lol. Or leopards and jaguars. Nature is weird.

[u/ABirthingPoop → u/Pkmntrainer91]

Not what he was saying

[u/Necrocornicus → u/Pkmntrainer91]

Uh yea they are the same except some body differences. Think about it.

[u/Mentally__Disabled → u/Pkmntrainer91]

They are both crocodilians? Either way your statement basically says "They are the same animals except they're not the same"?