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What are flying squirrels if not an in between state rodents evolving to fly?
by jimmytidey 4y ago
What are flying squirrels if not an in between state rodents evolving to fly?
- ginko 4y agoFlying squirrels evolved gliding independently from bats. Bats aren't rodents and they're not closely related.
- alexvoda 4y agoPrecisely, we are witnessing evolution in a similar direction in real time. Hundreds of thousands of years in the future, their descendants might actually be flying not gliding.
- samatman 4y agoExactly, sugar gliders and seals mean we don't need transitional fossils between 'land bats' and flying ones, or between 'land dolphins' and aquatic ones: we can already see that evolution can get a similar organism partway there, and if we find some smoking-gun fossils later, so much the better.