#convergentevolution — Public Fediverse posts

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

#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

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

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

Sketch of a Tyrannosaurus rex 🦖

#paleoart #paleontology #evolution #mastoart #convergentevolution #plant #plantart #fossil #dinosaure #trex #artwork #sketch #traditionalart

Drawing of an Ankylosaurus they lived during the Cretaceous era ✏️🦖🏝️

#paleoart #paleontology #evolution #convergentevolution #animal #dinosaure #procreate #artchallenge #artwork #sketch #traditionalart #mastoart

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

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

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

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

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.

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"

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.
#Lego #trains #convergentevolution

In the forest by wisp-light, set 3.

#Woodkin #ConvergentEvolution #OutInTheWoods #Undergrowth #IComeHereForTheAmbience #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething

#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion

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

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

Researchers have found an amphibian that makes milk for its babies

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236408925/researchers-have-found-an-amphibian-that-makes-milk-for-its-babies

#biodiversity #nature #amphibians #caecilians #convergentevolution #evolution

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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

Ars Technica: How do kingfishers avoid concussions when diving? It might be in their genes https://arstechnica.com/?p=1977728 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #convergentevolution #behavioralgenetics #animalbehavior #hydrodynamics #FieldMuseum #kingfishers #evolution #Genetics #Science #animals #Biology #Physics #birds

Ars Technica: How do kingfishers avoid concussions when diving? It might be in their genes https://arstechnica.com/?p=1977728 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #convergentevolution #behavioralgenetics #animalbehavior #hydrodynamics #FieldMuseum #kingfishers #evolution #Genetics #Science #animals #Biology #Physics #birds

Ars Technica: How do kingfishers avoid concussions when diving? It might be in their genes https://arstechnica.com/?p=1977728 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #convergentevolution #behavioralgenetics #animalbehavior #hydrodynamics #FieldMuseum #kingfishers #evolution #Genetics #Science #animals #Biology #Physics #birds

Ars Technica: How do kingfishers avoid concussions when diving? It might be in their genes https://arstechnica.com/?p=1977728 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #convergentevolution #behavioralgenetics #animalbehavior #hydrodynamics #FieldMuseum #kingfishers #evolution #Genetics #Science #animals #Biology #Physics #birds

#Parasitic plant convinces hosts to grow into its own flesh—it's also an extreme example of genome shrinkage https://phys.org/news/2023-09-parasitic-convinces-hosts-fleshit-extreme.html

#Balanophora #genomes display massively #ConvergentEvolution with other extreme #holoparasites and provide novel insights into parasite–host interactions https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-023-01517-7

"unlike some other #ParasiticPlants, Balanophora induces the vascular system of their host plant to grow into a tuber, forming a unique underground organ with mixed host-parasite tissue."

27-Jul-2023
#Bees and #wasps independently invent the same architectural tricks

Insects use the same types of non-hexagonal cells to overcome building challenges

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/996996

#science #insects #evolution #ConvergentEvolution

E Lau shows very nicely how bioluminescence in ostracods, fireflies and sea pansies can use very different structures yet convergently recruited homologous enzymes. The number of functional genes varies according to lineage-specific duplications. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.12.536614v1.abstract #SMBE2023 #ConvergentEvolution #paralog #bioluminescence

This big-ass succulent near 50th Street and Kansas Ave in Los Angeles looks like a cactus but it's actually some kind of Euphorbia. It's possible to see this any time because euphorbias don't have spines like cactuses, but the difference is especially clear when they're flowering, which this sweetie pie is doing and how!

Euphorbia flowers are really distinct and so are cactus flowers and they look nothing like each other. And there were so many bees!.

#StreetSucculents
#LosAngeles
#Euphorbia
#Cactus
#ConvergentEvolution
#50thStreet
#KansasAvenue
#Flowers
#FloweringPlants

#Barnacles - These Creatures Were #Darwin's Greatest Enemy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plYuvU2VZkE&ab_channel=PBSEons

#Science #Biology #PhilosophyOfBiology #Evolution #NaturalSelection #GenomicConvergence #ConvergentEvolution #Barnacle #Molluscs #Crustacea #Crustacean #Crustaceans #Cirripede #Cirripedes #PBS #Eon #PBSEon

Hello Mastodon! My #introduction: I am a #postdoctoral #researcher at #Harvard focused on #EvolutionaryGenomics of #adaptation and #ConvergentEvolution in #vertebrates, especially #SquamateReptiles. Currently, I am exploring the #evolution of convergent #LimbReduction in #skink #lizards. Due to the nature of my work, I am also passionate about #NaturalHistoryMuseums and #MuseumGenomics. I grew up in #UpstateNY and did my #PhD at #UnivTexasArlington.

Cuttlefish can pass the marshmallow test - Enlarge / A common cuttlefish, Sepia officianalis, in the Marine Resources Center at the Marine Bio... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1746506 #convergentevolution #animalcognition #marshmallowtest #animalbehavior #cephalopods #cuttlefish #science #biology