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darksilvania · 1 year

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NIGHTLY, HAWKTER, GENJAR (Dark/Flying) & Mega GENJAR (Dark/Fighting)

Convergent evolution line of GHASTLY, HAUNTER, GENGAR & Mega GENGAR.

They are nocturnal birds with the ability to imitate the cries of other pokemon, and even sounds made by humans, in order to attract unsuspecting prey into the dark forest and attack them by surprise.

They are mainly inspired by Nightjars, also known as nighthawks or frogmouths

GENJAR is also inspired in Owlbears from D&D

Mega GENJAR is based on the defensive posture owls will take when they feel threatened, ruffling their feathers and trying to look bigger and more intimidating

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alphynix · 3 months

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The mancallines were a lineage of flightless semi-aquatic birds closely related to auks. Known from the Pacific coasts of what are now California and Mexico, between about 7.5 and 0.5 million years ago, they convergently evolved a close resemblance and similar lifestyle to both the recently-extinct North Atlantic great auk and the southern penguins.

Miomancalla howardi here lived in offshore waters around southern California during the late Miocene (~7-5 million years ago). The largest of the mancallines, it just slightly beat out the great auk in size – standing around 90cm tall (~3') and weighing an estimated 5kg (11lbs).

Like great auks and penguins it would have been a specialized wing-propelled diver, swimming using "underwater flight" to feed on small bait fish. It probably spent much of its life out at sea, probably only returning to land to molt and breed.

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#science illustration #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoblr #miomancalla #mancallinae #pan-alcidae #auk #charadriiformes #bird #dinosaur #art #convergent evolution

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bynineb · 1 year

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convergent doduo/dodrio

#pokemon #fakemon #doduo #dodrio #mankey #convergent evolution

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mindblowingscience · 1 month

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A species of worm-like amphibian has been caught on camera feeding milk to its young. The creature, known as a caecilian, lives underground. Researchers believe that the animal developed the ability to produce a milk-like substance independently of mammals, who are universally known for feeding milk to their young.

#Science #Animals #Biology #Convergent Evolution #Amphibian #Caecilian #Milk #Brazil

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sweatervesto · 1 year

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convergent evolutions for voltorb and electrode:

Sectorb and Insectrode Bug-type!!!!!!!!!!

#pokemon #fakemon #convergent evolution #voltorb #electrode

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learnyouabiology · 2 years

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Fun Fact: Oilbirds are Basically BatBirds!

I want to talk about these amazing birds:

I love them. I mean, look at their big, shiny eyes! NO ONE can say that they aren’t cute as hell!

The other reason I love these animals is because they’re basically what happens when evolution tries to make a bat out of a bird.

These little guys are known as oilbirds (Steatornis caripensis), and are also called guácharo (and also several other things, because they are found in South America, plus Trinidad & Tobago, which all have INCREDIBLE language diversity).

Oilbirds are nocturnal, flying around the forests of South America at night looking for fruit to eat. They also live colonially in caves, which they navigate using echolocation.

So, to review:

(I’m making my Generic Bats a very generic fruit bat, for the record).

Oilbirds are the only birds with this combination of traits, which I think is pretty cool of them! Why are they so much like bats? Basically, when different types of animals evolve under similar selective pressures, they often evolve the same features! This is called convergent evolution, and wow I talk about it a lot on this blog! It turns out that nocturnal animals that live in caves and eat fruit can sometimes benefit from traits like these!

(they’re, like... spooky-cute. Cute-spooky? Either way, I like them a lot)

So, if these birds are flying around at night, how do they stop themselves from flying into things while searching for that tasty, tasty fruit?

Well, in the forest, they mostly rely on their AMAZING night vision (which is another trait they share with bats, fyi). That is why they have such big, adorable eyes, which has a lot of light-sensing cells called rods. They actually hold a record for the density of the rods in their eyes: one million per square millimetre. That is the highest density of any known vertebrate. It’s about 6x denser than the rods found in human eyes!

...still cute

Their amazing vision allows them to see very well in low light, which is how they navigate the South American jungles at night, searching for food under the moon and stars. That said, their vision just doesn’t cut it when it comes to flying in the caves they call home. Why? Well, caves are dark as hell, and even the best night-vision can’t do anything for you when there’s no light at all. Plus, flying into cave walls/ cliff faces hurts, so it’s good to be extra sure you’re not flying into solid rock!

So how do they find their way around these dark caves? Well, they use something very unusual for birds: echolocation!

Oilbirds are one of only a few species of birds that are known to use echolocation (the others are a few species of the closely-related swiflets (Collocaliini), but I HAVE DECIDED TODAY IS FOR THE OILBIRDS im sorry, swiflets, ilu2).

Look at them, not flying into rocks! I’m so proud (˃̣̣̥ ◡ ˂̣̣̥)

Also, a bonus fact, because idk where to fit this but I MUST mention it:

They have little whiskers around their beaks (which are technically called “rictal bristles”, but I’m going to call them “whiskers” because I like that word better). These whiskers are basically used to feel things that they have in and around their mouth, helping them find, manipulate, and eat their tasty fruit!

...moustache...

This has been Fun Fact Friday!

#science #birds #biology #sciblr #science side of tumblr #STEM #adhd in STEM #zoology #ecology #convergent evolution #fun fact friday #fun facts #oilbirds #I know i've been MIA for a while #my reason is that clinical depression CAME FOR ME #mental illness strikes again!#im not really better but im trying to get myself to experience joy by looking at cool birds #i also touched some trees and am in therapy and have new meds

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tidalpooles · 3 months

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The itis

#myart #pokemon fanart #pokemon #pokemon art #cutiefly #ribombee #convergent pokemon #convergent evolution #tidalpooles_art

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weirdly-specific-but-ok · 3 months

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pt II australia but i've never been there

I didn't even have to wait for y'all's responses on part I to make this because Australia is WILDING. As per usual, salutations to Arthur's grandmother's boyfriend Brian.

Everything remaining that I know about Australia:

There was an emu war. There were many emu casualties, and no human ones, but the emus won anyway. Sun Tzu is making way for the emus.

That was the only research I did on the emu wars, but as someone who met a few emus once, they were very lovely to me and very soft to pet. They also were very jabby. One of them looked deeply concerned as they looked at me, I believe they thought I was a deformed emu. I am on the winning side of the war.

During Christmas, Santa does not have a sleigh. He has a surfboard, and he does slay.

There are a lot of animals. Many have no placenta, as I recall from biology. Due to the nature of the continental drift and geographical isolation, Australian marsupials evolved separately from placental mammals, and were not wiped out by invading species. Due to convergent evolution, there are also analogous species between the placental mammals and the marsupials.

What just happened I'm sorry deep science trauma was unearthed. The point is, a lot of animals. A kangaroo is probably in your backyard. A koala just stole your girlfriend. An alligator murdered your classmate. It just happens.

KOOKOOBURRA SITTING ON THE OLD GUM TREE MERRY MERRY SOMETHING SOMETHING idk I was 3 when my mum sang me that.

The internet is awful. Rumours are that the local snake ate it.

Australia is very very pretty, I know this because of an Australian Tourism Department ad that I saw when I was 12 and had cable TV.

You must not forget your Hat. It's like the three little kittens song, but with the Hat instead of mittens.

The Wibbles are a thing. I thought they were a band. Spotify said no. I no longer know what they are.

Crocodile Dundee is a thing. I saw him in Snoopy/Peanuts.

Steve Irvin met his wife in an animal area and his daughter met her husband in an animal area. I don't know anything more these lovely folks, or what the animal area was, I'm afraid.

There is a cake with white stripes that is the Best for Birthdays.

The accent is beautiful, but I admit for years I couldn't differentiate it from British and American accents as a child because to me it sounded like the lovechild of them both and it made me very confused.

Uh, Australia exists.

Yeah, no, that's all I've got. Love to the Australian maggots.

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luckyspot · 8 months

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To reiterate

Convergent Evolution is what happens when two unrelated creatures develop to look and act the same by sheer coincidence.

Convergent Pokemon are Regional Pokemon in reverse. Not two creatures that evolved from the same creatures and turned different, but two creatures that started from two seperate starting points and came together at the end.

#pokemon #poltchageist #polteageist #pokemon scarlet and violet #convergent pokemon #convergent evolution #i love him #sinistea

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doomed-jester · 9 months

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Every day I want to grab people and shake them and tell them to shut the fuck up about carcinization. Every day I want to tell them that crustaceans evolving into similar body types isn't that impressive and that it's just adaptation to their ecological niche. The way we define crab is so loose and these are species that are already relatively closely related anyway. Convergent evolution is a broad phenomenon and it happens all the time and there are way weirder examples than a thing that was already nearly a crab becoming a crab.

There's a horse that's a gorilla.

This is a real animal that existed and lived and walked around in a semi upright posture and it's related to modern horses.

Fish, reptiles and mammals all keep turning into sharks.

These animals couldn't be much more distantly related while still having a spine. Shut the FUCK UP about carcinization.

Anyway that's what I would say if I was on a website where people weren't all slightly obsessed with crabs.

#crabs #carcinization #convergent evolution #biology #evolution #nature #shark #dolphin #dolphins #ichthyosaur

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whereserpentswalk · 3 months

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We don't appreciate convergent evolution enough. Yeah crabs are like that, but so are so many things. Do you even realize how cool it is that life invented eyes many separate times? Do you realize how many things had to go right for bats and birds to have the same body plan because both were four legged animals evolving wings? Have you even thought about snakes and eels? Do you realize how many mammals match the body plans of pre kph dinosaurs?

#196 #my thougts #animals #evolution #nature #creatures #convergent evolution #snakes #eels

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darksilvania · 1 year

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PARADORN & PARADORNMENT (Water/Poison)

They are convergent evolutions of PARAS & PARASECT based on Decorator Crabs, more specifically the Corallimorph Decorator Crab

By covering their bodies with poisonous sea life they absorb their toxins into themselves, becoming venomous as well, hence their "poison" typing

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alphynix · 2 months

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Dinocephalosaurus orientalis was a fully aquatic protorosaur reptile living in what is now southwest China during the mid-Triassic, about 244 million years ago.

Up to 6m long (~19'8"), it had a long serpentine body with paddle-like limbs and an especially elongated neck – but despite the superficial similarities to its semi-aquatic cousin Tanystropheus, Dinocephalosaurus' long neck appears to have been independently evolved.

Much like the similarly-shaped elasmosaurs, its neck may have had a "stealth" function, allowing it to bring its jaws closer to targets before the rest of its body was visible, then using side-to-side snapping bites to catch its prey in its interlocking "fish-trap" teeth.

A preserved well-developed embryo inside one specimen also suggests that Dinocephalosaurus gave birth to live young, making it one of only two archosauromorph lineages known to have ever evolved this reproductive strategy.

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#science illustration #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoblr #dinocephalosaurus #dinocephalosauridae #protorosaur #archosauromorph #reptile #art #convergent evolution

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hollowsart · 1 month

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Convergent Evo: Tardiursa -> Ursagrade

Based on: Tardigrades, also known as Water Bears

Tardiursa inflate their foamy tails to allow themselves to float and drift along the surface of water. They often blow bubbles and have a large one collect around their mouth as they practice diving. Noticeably smaller than Teddiursa and often times more friendly, which is why Ursagrade is so protective over them.

Ursagrade will often use their foamy tails to carry and protect their young. They use their well-developed 4-arms to tear through the water, through rocks and ice, and even their prey. They're considerably smaller than Ursaring, but just as strong and fierce, perhaps even more so, but only out of a deep love and need to protect their young, Tardiursa.

Could maybe use a little more work on Ursagrade, but this was my first draft idea. I think Tardiursa is perfect!

#my art #phone art #convergent pokemon #convergent fakemon #convergent evolution #pokemon #fakemon #teddiursa #ursaring

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cosmicssubway · 7 months

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i dont have nothing else to posttt look at my fakemon boy

#fakemon #convergent evolution #regional variant #fakemon design #pokemon #character design #pachirisu #clefairy #cleffa #regional variant pokemon #convergent pokemon #convergent fakemon

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sweatervesto · 1 year

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Poiduck & Volduck, Poison, Poison/Electric!!Akin to its waterfowl lookalike, Poiduck suffers from chronic nausea caused by clean air. Volduck inhales dangerous swamp gases, using chemical reactions in its organs to produce electricity.

#pokemon #fakemon #psyduck #golduck #convergent evolution

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