#convergent-evolution

#convergent-evolution

Yet over the past 66 million years, mammals across the globe have repeatedly gone down this path-not once or twice, but at least a dozen times. From anteaters and aardvarks to pangolins and aardwolves, the so-called myrmecophages (animals that feed on ants and termites) have evolved similar traits: they've lost most or all of their teeth, grown long sticky tongues, and learned to consume insects by the tens to hundreds of thousands each day.

Brachycephalic cats and dogs show an unusual example of convergent evolution, evolving to resemble each other due to similar selective pressures for flat, round faces.