Convergent Evolution Posters
These custom-made posters show a variety of convergently evolved organisms on the beautiful timeline of life on our planet - giving you a brilliant visual guide to one of evolution's most fascinating mechanisms.
And also giving you something to talk about too - I mean, who doesn't want show of their evolution knowledge to bedroom visitors?
It's CRAB Time
Behold the power of the CRAB. Explore every time things have convergently evolved into crabs (it's a lot of times).
See the science behind the phenomenon
Convergent evolution is one of the most interesting and revealing aspects of the process that drives the wonderous complexity of life on our planet. From turtles to moles, cats to crabs, the churning machine that is natural selection has decided a few things actually work really well, so why not make everything like them?
In this series on Ben G Thomas, Ben takes a detailed look at an expanding cast of convergently evolved traits - how it happened, what it means, and sometimes how it might even happen again...