Today one of my colleagues was trying to explain about phylogenetic trees in a presentation, and had come across this on the web by way of an entertaining example:
She was explaining how the branches showed how closely related different species were, and how they evolved from a common ancestor, and someone said quietly at the back:
Would that be the Primordial Soup Dragon?
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(actually, the whole
website is quite neat (if you like dragons and are a bit of a nerd, come on, hands up all of you...))