While it's very true that, as the great Ian Malcolm once said, "life finds a way," that way can sometimes veer quite far off ...

with articulations in the shell that suggest eyes. In the next gallery, nature seems to have the upper hand in drawings of fish, flowers and birds. But look closely. Ocean waves morph into claws ...

I think the student spent four days examining and at last drawing the fish to learn even more. Fish drawings by the "anonymous student" Source: From "In the laboratory with Agassiz, By a former ...