Question #149610. Asked by
BigTriviaDawg.
Last updated Aug 08 2023.
Originally posted Aug 08 2023 7:57 PM.
Unsurprisingly, our closest relatives, the great apes, also have fingerprints.https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24933253-300-do-other-animals-have-fingerprints-and-what-purpose-do-they-serve/
Perhaps more surprisingly, so does the koala. In an example of convergent evolution, koalas have fingerprints that are virtually indistinguishable from ours, even though our last common ancestor lived more than 100 million years ago. Like human prints, each individual koala's fingerprint has a unique pattern.
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