Evolution photos

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Alder regrowth after flood (Alnus maritima in Oklahoma)

A bird eating a parasite from a giant tortoise

The guano ring

The bulldozed prairie

Colorado krummholz

Rocky Mountain tundra

Startling a predator

Whitebark pine cone

Evolutionary convergence of puncture vine and sandbur grass

A bush that grows in Death Valley

A tiny spring wildflower in the desert (Mimulus bigelovii)

Slothful adaptation

An oak gall

Crab spider awaiting a meal

Spider mommy

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Startling a predator

This click beetle has fake "eyes" that may startle a predator into thinking that it is larger than it really is. Photograph by Stanley A. Rice. Appears in Life of Earth (Prometheus Books).