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I'm going to say there's a lot of convergent evolution going on there. Overall shape is very similar, the kind of thing you see in a number of shallow water species. The teeth are very different in number and quality. The teeth on the upper one show some differentiation, although Eyes are positioned about the same but nares are on the snout tip of one species and about halfway up on the other. One has a hole in the lower jaw nowhere mirrored on the other. More importantly, the upper has temporal fenestrae behind the eyes and is obviously a reptile. The other obviously is not.

And so forth. I could do even more if I were a paleontologist or what have you, or if it were possible to see what sutures exist and where in the skulls.

Just in general, lawyerly dumbshow of this sort does nothing toward showing that a real scientist can't tell a man from an ape or whatever.

It takes a bunch of "creation scientists" to be unable to agree what's "A man! Just a man!" and what's "An ape! Just an ape!"

Click here to see creationists all over the map on what's a simple variation within ape-kind and what's a simple variation within human-kind.

While we're at it, before you thump every strawman in the hayfield, Click here for why the fossil record doesn't go away as easily as you'd hoped.

For what evolution actually says about taxonomy and the historical tree of life, Taxonomy, Transitional Forms, and the Fossil Record. Not that it will stop you, but this way I can say I warned you. I know what it says in those links and you don't.

The teeth on the upper one show some differentiation, although Eyes are positioned about the same but nares are on the snout tip of one species and about halfway up on the other.

Editor needed. Must work for peanuts. BYO beer.

nice!