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Facts 03/08/2025 07:35

Fingerprints are supposed to be unique.



Koalas—those sleepy tree-huggers—have fingerprints so similar to humans that even experts need a microscope to tell them apart.
Loops, whorls, arches… it’s all there, etched on tiny marsupial hands.

If a koala ever stumbled into a crime scene, it could leave behind a perfect red herring.
Imagine the detective’s confusion: all signs point to a suspect, but the culprit is up a tree munching eucalyptus.

What’s even wilder? No other marsupial has them. Koalas evolved their prints independently of us, a striking case of convergent evolution.
Why? Because they, too, needed a better grip. For climbing, for feeding, for survival. Nature, faced with the same challenge, created the same solution—twice.

In the ridges of a koala’s paw, we see evolution’s poetry.
A reminder that the paths of life often rhyme, even across species.

And sometimes, the line between us and the wild is thinner than we think.

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