• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    Fun facts:

    • Seals are far more closely related to raccoons and cheetahs than they are to elephants.
    • Elephants are far more closely related to sea cows and hyraxes than they are to seals, raccoons, and cheetahs.

    Hope that makes your day nicer.

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      2 months ago

      Is there a visual graph for navigating animal genomes by “hopping” between them? Or like an ancestry tree?

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        You’re thinking of a phylogenetic tree, and whereas I can’t think of “jumping” between various points in a way that’s pragmatic, there is something like OneZoom. (Edit: Be careful if you have motion sickness.)

        Ideally you’re just looking at a tree of the taxon at the lowest level you can, in this case class Mammalia. (Technically infraclass Placentalia, but it’s cooler if you look at mammals as a whole.)

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          🐩 Animal #1119 🕊️
          I figured it out in 12 guesses!
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          🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 12

          That was fun, but I wouldn’t be able to do this without Wikipedia.

          • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
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            🐟 Animal #1119 🐺 I figured it out in 18 guesses! 🟧🟨🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩🟨🟩🟨🟨🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 18

            https://metazooa.com/ #metazooa

            Today’s was unusually hard. I usually get it way faster. Fucking birds.

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              🦁 Animal #1119 🐌 I figured it out in 11 guesses! 🟧🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 11

              That’s a cool game, but I skipped too many biology classes, so I also needed wiki’s help to complete it