phylogenesis prioritizes adaptations that help organisms survive , but no one said that fitting your ecological niche was plump to be particularly pretty .
A house sparrow is belittled and mottled brownness to blend in with its typical forest habitat . A ringtail looks like a cat mated with a squirrel and let a racoon raise the babies , for adaptive reasons we can only guess at .
This is the wacky world of natural survival , and today we portray 12 specie that look quite bizarre — but whose unequaled design has allowed them to hang on .
An aardwolfPhoto:Greg Hume
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