Question

The sugar glider in australia and the flying squirrel in north america are both small mammals with large expanses of loose skin between their fore- and hind-limbs allowing them to glide from tree to tree within their respective forest habitats. these two species are distantly related but are very similar in their overall appearance. the evolutionary explanation for their similarity is that

Answer 1

Each of these animals have adapted in very similar ways to similar habitats. This us similar to a homologous structure, but that is a term used for the presence of similar bones.