Nic Tamzek

Here's that sea butterfly (might as well post it):

pangloss

First its a candy, then it metamorphoses into gum. This cannot be explained by standard candy making hypotheses. Clearly, this disproves the concept everyone loves chocolate, for if we cannot even explain the Razzle phenomenon, what confidence can we have in the entire candy industry?

Writer@Large

Cheek pouches for storing food (like a hamster).


And Celsus, it's obvious--that last procyonidae you posted is a member of the "awdowable" kind.

--W@L

Minnesota

never mind

PandaJoe

This is clearly from the "adorable" kind.

Celsus

W@L: That awdowable thing is a kinkajou (Potus flavus)

My lithops didn't show up properly... so here's a second attempt:

The Lone Ranger

Here are some brachiopods. Quickly now, are they or are they not members of the "clam kind"?




Clams are bivalve mollusks, and like all mollusks, are protostomes. Brachiopods are deuterostomes, like ourselves. Despite their strikingly-similar appearance, bivalves and brachiopods are about as far from each other as is possible for two animals to be.

Azathoth

I have to disagree.That is clearly of the "Delicious" kind

Blinn

That's one of those weird "stone" plants, isn't it?

Minnesota

African white backed vulture (Gyps africanus



North American turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)


The white beaked vulture belongs to the
ORDER: Falconiformes
fAMILY: Accipitridae

The Turkey vulture belongs to the
Order: Falconiformes
FAMILY: Cathartidae

Catharidae's seven species are thought to be related to the stork and flamingo, which arose seperately (convergent evolution at work here) from the fifteen species of Accipitridae, birds related to the hawks and kites. So, although they look like a single "kind" they are not.

To put this is another perspective, the order Artiodactyla contains
the giraffe family Giraffidae and
the hippopotamus family Hippopotamidae