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What is common to Whale, Seal and Shark?

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Convergent evolution: The appearance of apparently similar structures in organisms of different lines of descent. Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.
Convergent evolution creates analogous structures that have similar form or function but were not present in the last common ancestor of those groups.
It is common to whale, seal and shark.

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