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Africa hosts many of the world's largest land animals due to a unique co-evolution with early humans, which led to lower extinction rates and the survival of these giants, unlike in other regions where human activity caused significant megafauna die-offs.
Mudskippers, a subfamily of fish that live both on land and in the water, are the only fish that can blink, and they evolved this ability independently from our ancestors — a concept known as convergent evolution. Scientists think that blinking evolved in land animals when they made the transition from the oceans roughly 375 million years ago. Therefore, studying this example of convergent evolution has offered clues as to how our primordial ancestors first took to Earth's shores.