what did an evolved dodo look like?
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Excactly like a dodo. Everything "evolves" as part of a community of other animals and plants in a particular environment, and the pigeon-like ancestors of the dodo could fly, because they came from a place where if you couldn't fly away, you got eaten. When the Dodo's ancestors first landed on the Mauritius they could fly very well, however there was no real advantage in flying once they arrived as there was nothing that they had to fly away from. Those individuals that didn't develop flight muscles were not at any disadvantage and many juvenile characteristics of the dodo were eventually carried into adulthood, as often occurs in small populations without predators. In the case of the Dodo evolving a big head, a wide gape and fat reserves provided a survival advantage that being able to fly could not, as it could exploit fruits when they were in season more effectively. \n\nThis large bird was perfectly evolved for its environment, until the community structure changed (the arrival of capable predators) and like a lot of twigs on the evolutionary tree, it was pruned off. \n\nThe pruning of the tree of life that is taking place today is the most extreme that has ever taken place, according to some biologists.
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Good question!\n\nNature has evolved molecules that pigment various parts of organisms.  Plants and flowers are the obvious case in point, but in humans, skin pigments, and those in the iris (giving us blue, green brown etc. eyes) have also evolved.\n\nIt is QUITE POSSIBLE that at some point in the past, alternative pigmentation DID evolve in humans, and the only thing we CAN say with any certainty, is that if it did, if was later eradicated from the gene pool, and does not ersist any longer.\n\nMost notably, the only ANIMALS that have evolved the colours you mention have been birds, where the ability to fly away rather than the need to camoflage and blend in is the preferred means of evading redators.  So bright colours in these cases are NOT dangerous to the organism (bird) displaying them.\n\nIt is true that some other apes (primates) DO display bright colours.  Some have bright red backsides, and in some cases, bright blue pigment is evident on parts of the bodies.\n\nSo as a final thought:  in a world where bright colouring is no longer likely to be life endangering to humans, how long will it be before a random genetic mutation causes pigmentation other than the standard tan and browns that we are used to to evolve?!
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Zebras have black stripes superimposed over white base coats.  Proof:  Zebras and horses can breed to produce offspring known as zebroids, zorses, or zebra mules.   These hybrids possess black (or dark) zebra stripes superimposed over a normal horse base coat, such as brown, bay, or palomino.  If zebra stripes were white, the zebra/horse hybrids would be expected to have white (or pale) stripes.  Additional proof:  quaggas are an “extinct” subspecies of plains zebra.  Their striping was restricted to their necks and heads (occasionally their backs, as well) and their base coats consisted of dark brown bodies, and white legs and tails.  This gave them the appearance (in darker individuals) of being largely brown with white stripes on the head and neck.  However, in an effort to rebreed the quagga, researchers take an approach which appears (to those who believe zebras are white on black) to be quite the opposite.  They are breeding zebras that are mostly white with striping limited to their necks and heads.  After a population of these “stripe-less” zebras has been established, the breeders will repeat the process, this time focusing on darkening the zebras’ bodies to the dark brown that characterizes a quagga.  It also seems that the less black stripes a zebra possesses, the darker the base coat becomes.  The striping effects observed and utilized by breeders hoping to achieve a quagga would not even exist if zebras were white on black.   (For more information regarding the Quagga Project, visit http://www.quaggaproject.org/ \n\nIn response to other answers:  A common misconception about a zebra’s true color is that it must have a black base coat because its skin is black.  Even professionals such as zookeepers readily accept this as sound reasoning.  However, only very rarely is skin color the same as the animal’s hair color.  Though pigment-less areas on most animals’ bodies will be characterized by both pink skin and white hair, this does not always hold true.  For instance, polar bears have black skin but transparent hair, and orange-furred cats have pink skin.  Within the realm of equines (the group to which zebras belong) chestnut horses have black skin though their hair produces no black pigment (only red), and champagne horses have pink skin despite having colored coats.  If zebras had pink skin to go along with their white base coat, they would be easily sunburned by the harsh African sun.  To compensate, zebras have black skin despite having a white base coat.\n\nWhy do zebras have stripes?\n\nThere are several theories. Here are a few of them:\n\nZebras have stripes to avoid predation. When a herd of zebras are running by, it is very difficult to pick out just one. All it looks like is a big, black and white, kaleidoscopic mess, not a herd of tasty equine individuals.\n\nZebras have stripes to encourage positive social interaction. It seems the stripes somehow trigger benevolent behavior among other zebras. Around the head and shoulders of most zebras, the stripes are most dense. These are areas where positive social behavior would take place, such as greeting or grooming. Around the rears of most zebras the stripes are broad and widespread. The rump is typically the site of aggressive behavior among zebras, such as nipping or kicking. \n\nZebras have stripes to avoid sunburn. It appears the stripes somehow combat UV rays.\n\nZebras have stripes to confuse parasites. Most parasites that rely on sight to find a host look for large, dark, moving bodies. By breaking up their shapes with bold stripes, zebras confuse parasites into misidentifying them as something other than a prospective host.\n\nOf course, all these things could be true. Quaggas are an extinct subspecies of plains zebra that lacked all striping on its body, retaining it only on its head and neck. Because the quagga was out of the range of the tsetse fly (a main zebra parasite), it is possible the body stripes receded because they simply
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pretty f*cking ugly i bet orangish fuzzy feathered thing with a huge nose and a bit dwarfed....so yeah ugly
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The dodo bird, wooley mamoth
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It was a stupid bird, and that is what the Portuguese called it when one of their world-ranging expeditions found it on the remote Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. In Portuguese, dodo means stupid or silly. An Englishman visiting Mauritius in 1628 reported the name in a letter, writing of "a strange fowle, which I had at the Iland mauritius, called by the portingalls a DoDo." The clumsy, squat birds were good eating and could not fly, so they could not escape capture by hungry sailors. Three or four dodos were said to be enough to feed a hundred men. It is not surprising that before the seventeenth century was over dodos were extinct.
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The egg.  It probaly evolved from dinos. Two types of dinos could have created the first chicken egg.
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think about the eye.  it's no good if all you have is an eyeball, yet lack an optic nerve to transmit the light as an electric signal, or an occipital cortex to interpret the electric pulses back into a picture.\n\nso how could the eye have evolved?  suppose some primordial worm starts getting two black dots on its head that will eventually turn into eyes.  suppose they eventually turn into eyes.  he still can't see.  this is not a viable mutation as it has no possible survival value or advantage over the other plain ol' worms.  an eye is no good unless every other part of the visual system is already intact.\n\nso a gradual evolving a pair of eyes won't work, since it will hinder the creature's survival before it will actually help it out.  the only way natural selection favours evolutionary andvancements is through ''hopeful monsters.'' a lizard hatching a bird, a worm with no eyes giving rise to one with eyes in a single generation.\n\nand that's another thing.  what if a lizard tried to grow longer and longer scales in hopes that they'd one day become feathers?  well, there comes a point where this lizard has half feather/scales, on some rather cumbersome, yet extremely fragile wing-like ''hands,'' which it can no longer use for running from predators, yet, it still cannot fly.  natural selection would quickly weed out such a transitional creature.\n\nand that's another thing...where are all these transitional fossils that had to be here?  since evolution took place over millions and millions of years, right?  (the earth's age is actually closer to what the bible says, anyway, as the speed of light is slowing down, and used to be much much faster in the past, according to modern quantum physics and other considerations, [see sources] so radioactive decay used to be much faster in the past, making radio-carbon dating yeild ages far too old)....there actually wasn't even enough time for things to evolve.  the only way evolution could've happened was by hopeful monsters...\n\nwhat about the peppered moth, mike?  what about it?  there's a variation in the species.  what about red heads and brunettes? ;-)  okay, what about the tiny 18 inch tall horses in fossil records?  well, modern, wild brown horses can be selectively bred to get tiny little horses like that.  yes, it takes about 80 years, but it can be done.  (evolutionists tend to call this ''micro-evolution'' just to get a foothold ;-)  )  what's more, regular house cats have been successfully bred with lions to produce ''medium sized'' cats.  this only shows that there is a wide variance in the species, but it's still one kind.  evolution states that one species will change so much over a period of time that it cannot breed with other species that have branched off in different directions.
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Because if so, we wouldn't be surprised to see evolutions in same species.  For instance, nobody would have cared that I went from man to woman because it would be so acceptable.  Here is some truth:  In reality, I am and always have been a woman.  I like quirky, interesting and fun to answer questions.  I chose  brown hair because YA's blond hair looks ugly to me.  Brown is not my real hair color.
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The first chicken was hatched from an egg of something that was not quite a chicken. That's evolution :-)
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According to a biology site:\n\n"It is generally believed that zebras are dark animals with white stripes where the pigmentation is inhibited. The pigment of the hair is found solely in the hair and not in the skin. The reasons for thinking that they were originally pigmented animals are that (1) white horses would not survive well in the African plains or forests; (2) there used to be a fourth species of zebra, the quagga (which was overeaten to extinction in the eighteen hundreds). The quagga had the zebra striping pattern in the front of the animal, but had a dark rump; (3) when the region between the pigmented bands becomes too wide, secondary stripes emerge, as if suppression was weakening."\n\nhttp://7e.devbio.com/article.php?ch=1&id=5
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Camouflaged Animals:\n\nCOLOR CHANGE\n>>Reptiles and Amphibians (like frogs, toads,chameleon) and some fish can change the colors of their skin or scales to match a surface that's near them. Their coloration is determined by biochromes in living cells. Biochromes may be in cells at the skin's surface or in cells at deeper levels. These deeper-level cells are called chromatophores. Cuttlefish species, can manipulate their chromatophores to change their overall skin color. Chameleons can produce a wide range of colors and patterns on their skin, but they do this primarily to express mood, not to blend in with different environments.\n \n>>Mammals (like deer, squirrels, or moles) have earth tones color to match trees or dirt.\n\n>> Far north  animals often have white fur or feathers in winter. When spring melts the snows, the white fur and feathers fall out. Pigments in the skin cells change. When new feathers and fur grow in, they match the new color or pattern of the landscape.\n\nCOUNTER SHADING\n>> Mice, white-tailed dear, Canada geese, otters and largemouth bass use a kind of camouflage called counter-shading. These animals have bodies that are dark on top and light on the bottom.When sunlight shines on an animal's darker colors, it makes them look lighter. When the animal's lighter-colored parts are in shadow, it makes them look darker. The two areas of color blend together when seen from a distance. The animal's outline is harder to pick out from surrounding patterns. \n\nELEMENT OF DISGUISE\n>>Insecta (like green katydid or grasshopper) - have a solid body color that matches the color of its environment. Many insects that feed on plants have solid green bodies during part or all of their lives\n\n>>Many animals have distinctive designs on their bodies that serve to conceal them . These designs, which might be spots, stripes or a group of patches, can help the animal in a couple of ways.This disruptive coloration is particularly effective when animals in a species are grouped together. To a lion, a herd of zebras doesn't look like a whole bunch of individual animals, but more like a big, striped mass. The vertical stripes all seem to run together, making it hard for a lion to stalk and attack one specific zebra. The stripes may also help a single zebra hide in areas of tall grass. Since lions are colorblind, it doesn't matter that the zebra and surrounding environment are completely different colors. \n\n>>Walking stick, an insect that looks like an ordinary twig. A predator can easily distinguish a walking stick from its surroundings, but the predator thinks its only a stick, and so ignores it. \n\nIMITATION\n>>Swallowtail butterflies and many insects often use a kind of camouflage called imitation. The shape of their bodies, along with their coloring, makes them look like other things.\n\nMIMICRY\n>>Viceroy butterfly and many harmless insects use mimicry.The monarch butterfly is a bad-tasting insect that most birds will not eat. The viceroy butterfly has a black-and-orange wing pattern that closely matches the monarch's. Birds who see a viceroy leave it alone, thinking it's a monarch. Many harmless insects look and fly like bees, insects which can really sting.♥\n\nFor more camouflaged animals visit this link:\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/camouflage.shtml
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the chicken evolved from some lower form and laid an egg
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doodee?  seriously?\n\nnot sure how this related to biology, since biology is the study of LIVING things.\n\nbut what else could be brown and red?  a robin?
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The tortoise i've never seen an egg with legs unless you count humpty dumpty or my exwife.\nPS.do you really look like that?if so you better phone home.
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Here are some pictures of red pandas ...\n\nhttp://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=red+panda&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&fr=FP-tab-img-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8
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Underworld Evolutions