How come animals are so different, for example, a snake and a mouse. A mousie is small and fat, and walks on four feet.

Question: How come animals are so different, for example, a snake and a mouse. A mousie is small and fat, and walks on four feet. Yet a snake is big, long and slides along the floor. When, really, all animals started out as the same thing and evolved over time?
- Keywords:
  diversity,
  evolution,
  mouse,
  snake
Asked by gabic to Charlotte, Jo, Kevin, Louise, Valeria on 18 Jun 2012.
- Joanna Cruden answered on 18 Jun 2012:
  
  Good question, it is down to evolution, where they live, what they have been exposed to, what the habitat is like, whether they are predator or prey, too many things to list, it is what makes this world such a wonderful diverse place to live

Question: How come animals are so different, for example, a snake and a mouse. A mousie is small and fat, and walks on four feet. Yet a snake is big, long and slides along the floor. When, really, all animals started out as the same thing and evolved over time?