Post #2698918
2026-05-13 21:21 UTC
Which of the following pairs of animals are more closely related?
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@datarama@hachyderm.io 2026-05-15 00:17
The iguana and the human! Iguanas, humans and tokay geckos are all amniotes, and the common toad isn't. The last common ancestor of the gecko and the toad is the same animal as the last common ancestor of the human (or the iguana) and the toad. (It's sort of silly that herpetology covers "the study of reptiles and amphibians"; that combination makes precisely as much sense biologically as "the study of mammals and amphibians".)