Comments by "Danamite" (@GenericDan) on "Insider News" channel.

  1. ​ @d-logan5280 Afrotheria is just a bunch of animals that decided to become other animals. Take a look at hedgehog tenrecs and tell me what your first thought would be about their taxonomy. You wouldn't believe that they're more related to elephants than actual hedgehogs.
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  2. Afrotheria is a clade, not an order if I remember correctly.
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  3. ​ @d-logan5280 Afrotheria is just a bunch of animals that decided to become other animals. Take a look at hedgehog tenrecs and tell me what your first thought would be about their taxonomy. You wouldn't believe that they're more related to elephants than actual hedgehogs.
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  4.  @d-logan5280  I mean, what else are they supposed to call it? They were referencing animals that they already know about to name new species based on similar characteristics. Let's take the giant otter shrew for example. It is neither a shrew, not an otter, and unlike most other mammals, it swims from side to side, like a crocodile, rather than an up and down motion, like a whale, or normal otter. If you spotted one in the wild, you would probably just be thinking of a giant shrew, or a small otter, due to the striking convergence. Hence the name.
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  5. 0:39 That "rodent" is more closely related to elephants than mice.
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