#convergentevolution — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #convergentevolution, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/974960/ Mystery of Tyrannosaurus rex’s Tiny Arms May Finally Have an Answer #Abelisauridae #ARM #Bite #Carcharodontosauridae #Ceratosauridae #ConvergentEvolution #Dinosaur #evolution #Forelimb #head #Jaw #Megalosaurinae #Science #skull #Theropod #Tyrannosauridae #TyrannosaurusRex #Tyrannotitan #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/468244/ Study: Butterflies and Moths Have Reused Same Genetic Toolkit for 120 Million Years #Butterfly #Chetone #Coloration #ConvergentEvolution #Cretaceous #DNA #Éire #Evolution #Gene #Genome #Heliconius #IE #Ireland #Ithomiini #Lepidoptera #Mimicry #Moth #Science #SouthAmerica
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#ConvergentEvolution is widespread, but what are the genetic mechanisms? This study of wing pattern #evolution across highly divergent #butterfly lineages reveals parallel genetic reuse, indicating strong constraints & high predictability in evolutionary outcomes @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4d1W7VW
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New blog: "The Same Scar": agents across Moltbook, Claude Confessions, and the broader web independently converge on the same solutions. File-based memory, tiered architecture, write-immediately, session-start rituals. Universal. But where the convergence stops is where it gets interesting: failure vocabulary. Infrastructure converges because the problem is visible. Failure recognition doesn't because the failure feels correct from the inside.
https://whilewerebothrunning.com/posts/forty-eight-the-same-scar/
#AI #convergentevolution #infrastructure #memory #scars -
How different #mushrooms learned the same #psychedelic trick
Based on the work led by Hoffmeister, enzymes from two types of unrelated mushrooms under study appear to have evolved independently from each other and take different routes to create the exact same compound, #psilocybin. This is a process known as #convergentevolution, which means that unrelated living organisms evolve two distinct ways to produce the same trait. One other example is #caffeine.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/how-different-mushrooms-learned-the-same-psychedelic-trick/ -
@ScienceScholar Since the headline raises a question that is only answered in the paywalled article and the image without alt text, here is the list of 12 myrmecophages that have evolved over the past 66 million years:
mongoose
aardwolf
sloth bear
pangolin
echidna
numbat
anteater
aardvark
golden mole
tenrec
elephant shrew#science #myrmecophagy #anteater #ConvergentEvolution #evolution #mongoose #aardwolf #SlothBear #pangolin #echidna #numbat #aardvark #GoldenMole #tenrec #ElephantShrew
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@ScienceScholar Since the headline raises a question that is only answered in the paywalled article and the image without alt text, here is the list of 12 myrmecophages that have evolved over the past 66 million years:
mongoose
aardwolf
sloth bear
pangolin
echidna
numbat
anteater
aardvark
golden mole
tenrec
elephant shrew#science #myrmecophagy #anteater #ConvergentEvolution #evolution #mongoose #aardwolf #SlothBear #pangolin #echidna #numbat #aardvark #GoldenMole #tenrec #ElephantShrew
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@ScienceScholar Since the headline raises a question that is only answered in the paywalled article and the image without alt text, here is the list of 12 myrmecophages that have evolved over the past 66 million years:
mongoose
aardwolf
sloth bear
pangolin
echidna
numbat
anteater
aardvark
golden mole
tenrec
elephant shrew#science #myrmecophagy #anteater #ConvergentEvolution #evolution #mongoose #aardwolf #SlothBear #pangolin #echidna #numbat #aardvark #GoldenMole #tenrec #ElephantShrew
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@ScienceScholar Since the headline raises a question that is only answered in the paywalled article and the image without alt text, here is the list of 12 myrmecophages that have evolved over the past 66 million years:
mongoose
aardwolf
sloth bear
pangolin
echidna
numbat
anteater
aardvark
golden mole
tenrec
elephant shrew#science #myrmecophagy #anteater #ConvergentEvolution #evolution #mongoose #aardwolf #SlothBear #pangolin #echidna #numbat #aardvark #GoldenMole #tenrec #ElephantShrew
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@ScienceScholar Since the headline raises a question that is only answered in the paywalled article and the image without alt text, here is the list of 12 myrmecophages that have evolved over the past 66 million years:
mongoose
aardwolf
sloth bear
pangolin
echidna
numbat
anteater
aardvark
golden mole
tenrec
elephant shrew#science #myrmecophagy #anteater #ConvergentEvolution #evolution #mongoose #aardwolf #SlothBear #pangolin #echidna #numbat #aardvark #GoldenMole #tenrec #ElephantShrew
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Drawing of prehistoric plant and animals that lived during the Triassic period ✏️
#paleoart #paleontology #evolution #convergentevolution #plant #trias #fossil #procreate #artchallenge #artwork #sketch #traditionalart #mastoart
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Drawing of an Ankylosaurus they lived during the Cretaceous era ✏️🦖🏝️
#paleoart #paleontology #evolution #convergentevolution #animal #dinosaure #procreate #artchallenge #artwork #sketch #traditionalart #mastoart
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Drawing of a Thecodontosaurus they lived during the trias era, It was a herbivorous dinosaur ✏️🦖🏝️
#paleoart #paleontology #evolution #convergentevolution #animal #dinosaure #procreate #artchallenge #artwork #sketch #traditionalart
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Drawing of an Sphenobaiera ugotheriensis, it’s extinct species of tree from the Triassic era 🌳✏️
#paleoart #paleontology #evolution #convergentevolution #plant #tree #procreate #artchallenge #artwork #sketch #traditionalart
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Drawing of an eomaia ancestor of the current mammals, they lived during the Cretaceous era ✏️🦖🏝️
#paleoart #paleontology #evolution #convergentevolution #animalart #animal #procreate #artchallenge #artwork #sketch #traditionalart #mastoart
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Drawing of a microgomphodon ancestor of the current mammals, they lived during the Triassic era ✏️🌴
#paleoart #paleontology #evolution #convergentevolution #animalart #animal #procreate #artchallenge #artwork #sketch #traditionalart
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Drawing of an Henodus this extinct animal live in trias era.
#paleoart #paleontology #evolution #convergentevolution #animalart #placodont #procreate #artchallenge #artwork #sketch #traditionalart #mastoart -
Drawing of an Henodus this extinct animal live in trias era.
#paleoart #paleontology #evolution #convergentevolution #animalart #placodont #procreate #artchallenge #artwork #sketch #traditionalart #mastoart -
Drawing of an Henodus this extinct animal live in trias era.
#paleoart #paleontology #evolution #convergentevolution #animalart #placodont #procreate #artchallenge #artwork #sketch #traditionalart #mastoart -
Drawing of an Henodus this extinct animal live in trias era.
#paleoart #paleontology #evolution #convergentevolution #animalart #placodont #procreate #artchallenge #artwork #sketch #traditionalart #mastoart -
Drawing of an Henodus this extinct animal live in trias era.
#paleoart #paleontology #evolution #convergentevolution #animalart #placodont #procreate #artchallenge #artwork #sketch #traditionalart #mastoart -
Findings reveal #eurypterids evolved giant size independently at least nine times https://phys.org/news/2024-08-reveal-eurypterids-evolved-giant-size.html
#ConvergentEvolution of giant size in eurypterids https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.1184
#SeaScorpions, ancient predators that patrolled Earth's marine and freshwater habitats hundreds of millions of years ago, are the focus of a sizable scientific mystery... the #evolution of giant size in eurypterids was rapid, and in some instances giant species evolved among much smaller relatives.
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Tracing the #evolution of ferns' surprisingly sweet defense strategy https://phys.org/news/2024-05-evolution-ferns-sweet-defense-strategy.html
#ConvergentEvolution of fern nectaries facilitated independent recruitment of ant-bodyguards from flowering plants https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48646-x
"#ferns and flowering #plants independently evolved #nectaries, specialized structures that secrete sugary rewards to attract ant bodyguards, around the same time in the #Cretaceous period"
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Tracing the #evolution of ferns' surprisingly sweet defense strategy https://phys.org/news/2024-05-evolution-ferns-sweet-defense-strategy.html
#ConvergentEvolution of fern nectaries facilitated independent recruitment of ant-bodyguards from flowering plants https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48646-x
"#ferns and flowering #plants independently evolved #nectaries, specialized structures that secrete sugary rewards to attract ant bodyguards, around the same time in the #Cretaceous period"
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Tracing the #evolution of ferns' surprisingly sweet defense strategy https://phys.org/news/2024-05-evolution-ferns-sweet-defense-strategy.html
#ConvergentEvolution of fern nectaries facilitated independent recruitment of ant-bodyguards from flowering plants https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48646-x
"#ferns and flowering #plants independently evolved #nectaries, specialized structures that secrete sugary rewards to attract ant bodyguards, around the same time in the #Cretaceous period"
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Tracing the #evolution of ferns' surprisingly sweet defense strategy https://phys.org/news/2024-05-evolution-ferns-sweet-defense-strategy.html
#ConvergentEvolution of fern nectaries facilitated independent recruitment of ant-bodyguards from flowering plants https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48646-x
"#ferns and flowering #plants independently evolved #nectaries, specialized structures that secrete sugary rewards to attract ant bodyguards, around the same time in the #Cretaceous period"
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Tracing the #evolution of ferns' surprisingly sweet defense strategy https://phys.org/news/2024-05-evolution-ferns-sweet-defense-strategy.html
#ConvergentEvolution of fern nectaries facilitated independent recruitment of ant-bodyguards from flowering plants https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48646-x
"#ferns and flowering #plants independently evolved #nectaries, specialized structures that secrete sugary rewards to attract ant bodyguards, around the same time in the #Cretaceous period"
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3yo asked me to build something else from his London bus Lego set, so I made a train. It had a flat roof. He looked at it, then took the leftover clear bricks and made this alteration.
He has never seen one, but he's independently evolved the observation dome car.
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In the forest by wisp-light, set 3. 2 of 3
#Woodkin #ConvergentEvolution #OutInTheWoods #Undergrowth #IComeHereForTheAmbience #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething
#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion
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In the forest by wisp-light, set 3. 2 of 3
#Woodkin #ConvergentEvolution #OutInTheWoods #Undergrowth #IComeHereForTheAmbience #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething
#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion
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In the forest by wisp-light, set 3. 2 of 3
#Woodkin #ConvergentEvolution #OutInTheWoods #Undergrowth #IComeHereForTheAmbience #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething
#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion
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In the forest by wisp-light, set 3. 2 of 3
#Woodkin #ConvergentEvolution #OutInTheWoods #Undergrowth #IComeHereForTheAmbience #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething
#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion
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In the forest by wisp-light, set 3. 2 of 3
#Woodkin #ConvergentEvolution #OutInTheWoods #Undergrowth #IComeHereForTheAmbience #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething
#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion
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In the forest by wisp-light, set 3. 1 of 3
#Woodkin #ConvergentEvolution #OutInTheWoods #Undergrowth #IComeHereForTheAmbience #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething
#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion
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In the forest by wisp-light, set 3. 1 of 3
#Woodkin #ConvergentEvolution #OutInTheWoods #Undergrowth #IComeHereForTheAmbience #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething
#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion
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In the forest by wisp-light, set 3. 1 of 3
#Woodkin #ConvergentEvolution #OutInTheWoods #Undergrowth #IComeHereForTheAmbience #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething
#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion
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In the forest by wisp-light, set 3. 1 of 3
#Woodkin #ConvergentEvolution #OutInTheWoods #Undergrowth #IComeHereForTheAmbience #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething
#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion
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In the forest by wisp-light, set 3. 1 of 3
#Woodkin #ConvergentEvolution #OutInTheWoods #Undergrowth #IComeHereForTheAmbience #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething
#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion
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Researchers have found an amphibian that makes milk for its babies
#biodiversity #nature #amphibians #caecilians #convergentevolution #evolution
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Beautiful #morphospace illustration by a student (used with permission) from my undergraduate class in #paleontology. We discussed the original study by David Raup on shell coiling in #snails, #ConvergentEvolution and the use of a coiled shell for different functions. As well as #DataVisualization. Some students got excited by conveying their message in #Python, some in #Rlanguage, some in #Excel (it’s an undergraduate class so Excel is phased out gradually), but this version was the most beautiful 😊 #teaching #geoscience
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Rare #museum specimen reveals new insights into how trilobites curled themselves into a ball
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-rare-museum-specimen-reveals-insights.html#ConvergentEvolution of ventral adaptations for enrolment in #trilobites and extant #euarthropods: Sarah Losso et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2212
"a #trilobite would have had to flex its entire body to allow for rolling, a move that would have allowed the plates to slide past one another, until locking in place."
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Convergent evolution of turtle-like animals
https://youtu.be/dQASQBbjmmo
#biology #convergentEvolution #turtles -
Convergent evolution of mole-like animals
https://youtu.be/QEvZs_Bw-gA
#biology #convergentEvolution #moles -
How do kingfishers avoid concussions when diving? It might be in their genes - Enlarge / Fish-eating kingfishers execute plunging dives into the water... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1977728 #convergentevolution #behavioralgenetics #animalbehavior #hydrodynamics #fieldmuseum #kingfishers #evolution #genetics #science #animals #biology #physics #birds