One of the most stunning arguments for evolution is how it actually looks very poorly designed. The bulk of changes that happen are jerry-rigging existing things to work around limitations in new forms, often taken to frankly absurd lengths- A well known example from Giraffes:
Then there’s the vagus nerve, and it’s evolutionarily-required loop through the aorta – making a nerve more than 15 feet long, down the neck and back up, to go from the brain to the larynx.
15 feet long when all it would have to do is cut a few centimeters across the neck to reach the same spot. It actually dates back to when what would be mammals were fish-like creatures and it was part of the gill structure and reached back to the heart, hence the loop through the Aorta.
But for all the haphazard nature of it, sometimes the examples of evolution are just beautiful, and on that note, I present to you Aardonyx Celestae.
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