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It's amazing that this eagle most likely descended from the Australian little eagle. Imagine if Steller's Sea Eagles had made it to NZ. http://upload.wikimedia.
by biohacker42 17y ago
It's amazing that this eagle most likely descended from the Australian little eagle. Imagine if Steller's Sea Eagles had made it to NZ. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Stellers_Sea_Eagle_with_Man.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Stellers_...
- science4sail 17y agoThe problem is that ecological niche is a better determiner of size than ancestry...
- biohacker42 17y agoSure. But evolution prefers to reuse rather then innovate, this can often lead to interesting limits. For example, we still have a blind spot where the optic nerve connects to the retina, in all this time we have not evolved a blind spot free eye. Thus I was wondering if there are some odd limitations in how big, how quickly a little eagle can evolve, vs what the giant raptors could do. It was basically evolutionary fan.fic.