How can evolution explain this?

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(Telegraph) A lizard that looks startlingly like Spider-Man – Mwanza flat-headed rock agama – has become the latest fashionable pet.

The vivid red-and-blue colouring is almost uncannily like that of the Marvel superhero, and comic book fans have been flocking to exotic pet shops to snap them up.

Agamas like the Spider-Lizard, as it has become known make good pets, as they become tame and docile if handled regularly. However, they require specialist equipment in the UK to maintain their temperature.

World without end.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

6 replies on “The Popular Spider-Man Lizard”

  1. Charles, get a high-school biology book and give it a read. You’ll learn a whole lot and you’ll stop posting questions that have been answered for over a hundred years.

  2. Because Stan Lee is god and he willed it?

    Makes about as much sense as thinking that evolution had anything to do with this coincidence between the coloring of an African lizard to the costume of a fictional superhero.

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