Swifts, Swallows Swifts, swallows: ghostly Doubles meeting at Whitsun - Sky god’s full-throated Season echoing the Abyss. Forebear tongues and Sagas revelled in Whirlpools and swallies, Devoured by the sweeping, Churning presences Glimpsed in sky and sea. Swifts, swallows: ghostly doubles, Aerial nomads, Custodians of Ancient songlines etched with a Thumbtack of neurons. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

#PoemsAloud #animalpoem

#poetry: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

#Swift #Swallow #ConvergentEvolution #Nature #Songlines #bskypoetry #poetrycommunity

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#poetry: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025

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Engineered to Break Skink tails, evolved sacrifice, and dollhouses

A robin grabs a skink by the tail.
Snap.

The tail writhes on the forest floor while the lizard runs for cover.

Evolution sometimes solves predation by building things that are meant to break.

#evolution #lizards #convergentevolution

Looks weirdly like a Northern Grey-headed Sparrow #convergentevolution

Animal Minds, Human Minds, AI Minds: Why Intelligence Converges Crows plan, dolphins grieve, dogs read human intent—and AI now shows the same structural patterns. The convergence isn’t an accident.

This essay argues that the standard framework for assessing cognitive similarity — one that treats biological proximity as the primary predictor of mental resemblance — is not merely incomplete but fundamentally misconceived.
#PhilosophyOfMind #AnimalMinds #AnimalIntelligence #ConvergentEvolution

A pigeon evolved to look exactly like a parrot. Green plumage. Red bill. Climbs trees like one too.
Scientists grouped it with parrots until DNA proved them wrong.
After a decade running a parrot sanctuary, I take this personally.
#AfricanGreenPigeon #ConvergentEvolution #BirdSky

Cryo-EM resolves the structure of the archaeal dsDNA virus HFTV1 from head to tail You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.

Fascinating. DNA viruses of Archaea show gross morphologic similarity to T even bacteriophages, suggesting either common origin or that this was such a great strategy you couldn't avoid it.
Different kingdoms of life.

#ConvergentEvolution ?

www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

#convergentevolution

2022: "None of these [Asian] bat viruses contains a furin cleavage site in the spike protein."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2025: "Comparative structural analysis identified other betacoronaviruses in bats with furin cleavage sites at the S1/S2 junction."

igure 3. Three-dimensional reconstructions of internal pterothoracic anatomy, including muscles involved in swimming movements of the legs.

#LiteratureNotice Hu et al. Ancient divergent evolution of specialized swimming modes in aquatic beetles doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #Beetle #Beetles #waterscavengerbeetles #waterbeetles #convergentevolution

Mushrooms Use Separate Enzyme Paths to Produce Psilocybin

Psilocybe and Inocybe mushrooms make psilocybin via distinct enzyme sets, a convergent evolution case reported by Dirk Hoffmeister in Angewandte Chemie. Read more: getnews.me/mushrooms-use-separate-e... #psilocybin #convergentevolution

Crabs! BBC R4 curious cases this morning. Give it a listen if you can.

Video of Sprog 1's hermit crab for your delectation & delight. This guy looks right back at you & joining them for dinner (disgusting but they like it) is fascinating.
#crabs
#convergentevolution
#hermitcrabs

Mushrooms Evolve Two Separate Enzyme Pathways to Produce Psilocybin

Inocybe corydalina and Psilocybe mushrooms each use distinct enzyme pathways to make psilocybin, the first documented fungal case of convergent evolution (Angew. Chem., 2025). getnews.me/mushrooms-evolve-two-sep... #psilocybin #convergentevolution

Scientists Discover Two Separate Evolutionary Paths to Psilocybin

Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena reported in September 2025 that psilocybin evolved independently in Psilocybe and fiber‑cap (Inocybe) mushrooms. getnews.me/scientists-discover-two-... #psilocybin #fungi #convergentevolution

Both take to the skies, but birds 🪶and bats🦇 do not share a common flying ancestor; their flight is a great example of convergent evolution. Learn more about how researchers are studying bird & bat flight & why they are so long-lived. 🔎haikubox.com #haikubox #ConvergentEvolution #bats #birdwatching

. Some species, like Armillaria mellea (the 'fool's fungus'), form colossal underground networks known as the 'humongous fungus,' among the largest living organisms on Earth! #Bioluminescence #NatureMysteries #ScientificWonder #FungalFacts #ConvergentEvolution #EcoMarvels (3/3)

Pleased to present my research on the drivers of convergent evolution in spider visual systems at the DZG meeting. Great discussions and feedback!
#EvolutionaryBiology #ConvergentEvolution #DivergentEvolution #SpiderVision #Arachnology #DZG #dzg2025

Small illustrations of the convergent evolutions I made some time ago of Feebas and Milotic (Phoebax and Milophim), below are the old concepts 🙂‍↕️
#fakemon #fanmadepokemonconcept #convergentevolution #convergentfeebas #convergentmilotic

This doesn’t mean Andean dogs were ancestors of European molossers. It’s a case of selective convergence: different cultures, different genes, same needs—guarding, hunting, companionship. #ConvergentEvolution #DogBreeds

Convergent Evolution: Nature’s Uncanny Echoes of Design Across Species "Explore convergent evolution: how unrelated species independently develop similar traits due to shared environmental pressures, revealing life's adaptive power."

Unrelated Life Forms Arrive at Identical Solutions: The Science of Convergent Evolution

#convergentevolution #evolution #naturalselection #analogousstructures #biology #genetics #adaptation #FactRage #FactRageNews

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Just saw one of these little guys on an amble through the neighborhood! Hummingbird moth, photo yoinked from @gardeningknowhow.com

#moth #nature #convergentevolution #flowers #garden #hummingbirdmoth

I just stumbled across this hauntingly beautiful Aye Aye (1866) by Joseph Wolf, who is also responsible for my favourite Striped Possum illustration (1858). Yet another thing these two incredible species have in common. #ConvergentEvolution www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30838065 #ILoveBHL

Convergent Evolution of Sociality Causes Reduction of Mutation Rates in Spiders
Aagaard, A., Bechsgaard, J. et al.
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#ConvergentEvolution #SocialSpiders #MutationRateReduction

#convergentevolution
#symbionts
#ATP

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Tiny sacoglossan sea slugs have organelles, aptly called kleptosomes, that not only store their food's chloroplasts, but also "support chloroplast photosynthesis and longevity", and "digest them during prolonged starvation".

Having found what kleptosomes
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Pitcher plants

Flower of a bladder worked, the carnivorous bladders are underwater

Sticky sundews that trap insects

Three #carnivores: pitcher plants (Sarracenia purpurea, Sarraceniaceae), bladderworts (Utricularia intermedia, Lentibulariaceae), and sundews (Drosera rotundifolia, Droseraceae) - #convergentevolution, assembled together in a nutrient-poor NY fen. #nativeplants

Hummingbird hawk moth with slightly blurred wings

Guys I just watched a hummingbird hawk-moth feed from sage flowers in my yard and lemme tell you, fascism may be spreading but man that thing is cool. #ConvergentEvolution

Macro photo of a small orange, black, and white fly that sort of looks like a bee Canon EOS 80D ISO 100 100mm ƒ/11 1/160 s flash

Macro photo of a small orange, black, and white fly that sort of looks like a bee Canon EOS 80D ISO 250 100mm ƒ/5 1/160 s natural light

Couple more shots 🐝🪰

#macro #hoverfly #ConvergentEvolution

Celyphidae vs Chrysomelidae. Start with the short tutorial behind the help button.

How cool are beetle flies :D

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TIL that they're related to Lauxaniidae, which I always confuse with Drosophilidae.

I love the "ancestry" button (top next to the chili) for this!

#Duonat #biodiversity #flies #diptera #beetles #coleoptera #ConvergentEvolution

Did you know that #convergentevolution has led to similar traits in unrelated species?

For example, #both bats and #dolphins have developed #echolocation abilities, despite their distant evolutionary relationship. Learn about how to drive your own genomics #research: bit.ly/3FxV4zG%E2%8...

“Although it is similar to Ledyba, Slickyba is a completely different species. It paints trees with the gasoline it secretes from its hands, then lights its work on fire in a dramatic display.”
#Art #Pokemon #Ledyba #June2024 #ConvergentEvolution #TraditionalArt

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Here’s the kicker: it evolved independently multiple times — a textbook case of convergent evolution.
There are at least 8 classes (α, β, γ, δ, ζ, η, θ, and ι), with completely different structures but the same core function.
#ConvergentEvolution #ProteinDiversity