Only this nugget: "For example, tiny elephant shrews, aardvarks, elephants, golden moles and swimming manatees have all come from the same big branch of mammal evolution—despite the fact that they look completely different from one another (and live in very different ways)."
An elephant shrew looks like this: https://www.treehugger.com/thmb/VKOpt-Yx9k16w-trh4lB7l3Gm7k=/400x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/somali-sengi_shrew-efbb431b110e49eeb681cdaa76ef4eb2.jpg
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These ferocious shrews sometimes have venomous saliva.
Only this nugget: "For example, tiny elephant shrews, aardvarks, elephants, golden moles and swimming manatees have all come from the same big branch of mammal evolution—despite the fact that they look completely different from one another (and live in very different ways)."
An elephant shrew looks like this: https://www.treehugger.com/thmb/VKOpt-Yx9k16w-trh4lB7l3Gm7k=/400x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/somali-sengi_shrew-efbb431b110e49eeb681cdaa76ef4eb2.jpg
These ferocious shrews sometimes have venomous saliva.
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