...is awesome.
What's more closely related to an elephant shrew...the shrew or the elephant? It's the elephant.
The largest living land mammal and the smallest are now classed in the same branch of evolution, Afrotheria. And to think that we started calling them elephant shrews because they have itty bitty trunklets.
Convergent evolution just likes to lead us astray.
And will it lead to things actually looking similar if we ever make it to another Earthlike planet? Maybe Spock isn't so unrealistic after all...
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