Source: cirosantilli/chordate

= Chordate
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Chordate is a sad clade.

You read the name and think: hmm, neural cords!

But then you see that his is one of its members:

\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Tunicate_komodo.jpg/1024px-Tunicate_komodo.jpg]

Yup. That's your cousin. And it's a much closer cousin than something like <arthropods>, which at least have heads eyes and legs like you.

<Convergent evolution> is crazy!