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It’s time for the third edition of my highly unbiased and scientific infographic comparing invertebrates and vertebrates who share names.

This round I focused on the owl fly, an invertebrate that is often confused for a dragonfly but is unrelated, and a familiar nocturnal bird, the owl.

Here are the previous VERSUS 
TIGER BEETLE VS TIGER
WATER BEAR VS BROWN BEAR

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Kelly Brenner

Kelly Brenner is a naturalist, writer and artist based in Seattle. She is the author of THE NATURALIST AT HOME: Projects for Discovering the Hidden World Around Us and NATURE OBSCURA: A City’s Hidden Natural World from Mountaineers Books, a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and Pacific Northwest Book Awards. She writes articles about natural history and has bylines in Crosscut, Popular Science, National Wildlife Magazine and others. On the side she writes fiction.

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