Sea Animals
This sea animal has no fossil record for it, meaning there is no evidence that it evolved from anything.
What is starfish?
This land animal has not only evolved from the woolly mammoth, but also from an aquatic animal that used their trunk for snorkeling while swimming.
What is elephants?
This bird has seemed to have forgotten how or lost the ability to fly.
What is penguins?
Humans and this animal have very similar characteristics and could possibly even share the same ancestors.
What is apes/gorillas/monkeys?
These insects were around in the Jurassic period and were up to 3 times larger than they are today.
What is mosquitoes?
This sea animal is believed to of come from a hoofed, land-living mammal called Mesonyx, but returned to the ocean about 50 million years ago.
What is dolphins?
This land animal had four toes at the front and three toes at the back, spread out at different angles which helped them from sinking in the marshy ground.
What is horses?
This bird has evolved their ears so they are slightly higher on one side than on the other and they also evolved their feathers to be softer so they can fly without making any sounds.
What is owls?
Humans first evolved on this continent and much of human evolution occurred their too.
What is Africa?
This insect differentiated from wasps in the early Cretaceous in order to make use of the new pollen resource.
What is bees?
This sea animals is believed to of had fingers and possibly hooves, unlike now because they have fins.
What is whales?
This land animal has flourished in nearly every habitat, from desert to forest, from topics to tundra and have left a fossil record of odd-looking earlier forms.
What is deer?
This bird has ancestors who's fossils have been found from the Mesozoic era which help show that birds may have evolved from reptiles.
What is eagles?
These 4 parts of the human body are vestigial meaning they aren't useful anymore.
What is the appendix, coccyx, body hair, and wisdom teeth?
This insect has probably evolved from moths.
What is a butterfly?
This animal didn't have tusks about 14 millions years ago, instead they had upper and lower canine teeth, leaving them vulnerable.
What is Walrus'?
This land animal has come from protosuchians, which evolved in the late Triassic and early Jurassic period.
What is alligators?
These birds are very intelligent because it turns out that the genes that play a role in their brain development are similar to those that evolved to give humans large brains.
What is parrots?
Over time, these things in humans have decreased.
What is body size, brain size, and jaw/tooth size?
This insect evolved multiple characteristics after the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana about 100 million years.
What is ants?
This sea animal has existed for over 350 million years and they evolved over 100 million years before the dinosaurs.
What is sharks?
This land animal had fossils of its ancestors found in central china and scientists called this ancestor panthera paleosinensis.
What is tigers?
This bird seemed to have evolved over 30 million years ago and has footprint traces in the Andes Mountains.
What is flamingos?
Evolved over 4 million years ago, the ability to walk on two legs is a defining human trait and called this.
What is bipedalism?
These insects are believed to have evolved from roaches around 70 million years ago.
What is termites?