Rare Evolution in Action Spotted in Island Bats

A recent news article sported the bold claim that evolution in action was recently observed. But we have heard such claims many times before. Dr. Tyrone Lavery, from the University of Melbourne, reported that ���two groups of leaf-nosed bats [living in the Solomon Islands] with vastly different body sizes that were thought to be separate species are an example of a rare type of parallel evolution.���

Stay with me here, parallel evolution is when different populations (usually of the same species...