Leonardo da Vinci the picture of the last supper painting

Leonardo da Vinci the picture of the last supper painting
Pierre-Auguste Cot Springtime painting
While the two techniques are quite different, the results were the same: the flamingo's sister is a grebe. Webbed Feet Don't Make RelativesThe research also suggests that some birds that have been grouped together because of similar characteristics actually evolved at very different times. All birds with webbed feet, for example, did not inherit that trait from a single evolutionary event. The webbing that allows some birds to swim so effectively "appeared more than once" in the evolutionary history of aquatic birds, Hedges says.The fact that an event that was thought to have occurred only once actually happened over and over again shows just how adaptable aquatic birds are, he adds, and it indicates that evolution could have moved along at a somewhat faster pace than had been thought.