Although the koala is not a bear, English-speaking settlers from the late 18th century first called it koala bear due to its similarity in appearance to bears.

Although the okapi bears striped markings reminiscent of zebras, it is most closely related to the giraffe.

Although most polar bears are born on land, they spend most of their time at sea.

Although unexplained in the manuscript and not otherwise attested, in this image Ratatoskr bears a horn.

Although he is commonly known for Occam's razor, the methodological principle that bears his name, William of Ockham also produced significant works on logic, physics, and theology.

Although this modern monster bears some superficial resemblance to the Haitian zombie tradition, its links to such folklore are unclear, and many consider George A. Romero to be the progenitor of this creature.

Although the Osiris myth also is fragmentary to an extent, it bears a greater resemblance to a cohesive story.

Although they all live in North America, American black bears are not closely related to brown bears and polar bears ; genetic studies reveal that they split from a common ancestor 5. 05 million years ago.

Although Wolverton and Lyman still consider U. vitabilis an " apparent precursor to modern black bears ", it has also placed within U. americanus.

Although Ankh-Morpork bears more than a passing resemblance to Lankhmar, Pratchett, known for the use of pastiche in his early works, has been quoted as not intending a direct takeoff.

Although the science fiction film Destination Moon is generally described as being based on Heinlein's novel Rocket Ship Galileo, the story in fact bears a much closer resemblance to The Man Who Sold the Moon, whose copyright date shows that it was written in 1949, although it wasn't published until 1951, the year after Destination Moon came out.

Although the Nestlé's Toll House recipe is widely known, every brand of chocolate chips, or " semi-sweet chocolate morsels " in Nestlé parlance, sold in the U. S. and Canada bears a variant of the chocolate chip cookie recipe on its packaging.

Although Asymetrix ToolBook is often also considered a HyperCard clone, its scripting language apparently bears little resemblance to HyperTalk.

Although Steiff's records show that the bears were produced, they are not recorded as arriving in America, and no example of the type, " 55 PB ", has ever been seen, leading to the story that the bears were shipwrecked.

Although Steiff and Michtom were both making teddy bears at around the same time, neither would have known of the other's creation due to poor transatlantic communication.

Although Spike bears a slight resemblance, Wario was not to receive his true debut until 1992.

Although the town no longer bears his name, other landmarks still retain their name association to the late William Forbes.

Although the district bears the borough's name, it also provides PreSchool-12 education to the residents of Whitaker and high school education to a number of students residing in Duquesne.

Although he later replaced the opening two movements with a single one, the music bears all the hallmarks of his mature style.

It is 197 km southeast of Zagreb and at an elevation of 96 m. Although ' brod ' is the word ' ship ' in modern Croatian, the city's name bears witness to an older meaning-' water crossing ', ' ford '.

Although the town bears a Spanish name, its inhabitants are mostly Kriol / English-speaking, primarily of Garifuna, East Indian, and Kriol descent.

Although 19th-century ethnologists saw " diffusion " and " independent invention " as mutually exclusive and competing theories, most ethnographers quickly reached a consensus that both processes occur, and that both can plausibly account for cross-cultural similarities.

Although the early embryos of different species exhibit similarities, Haeckel apparently exaggerated these similarities in support of his Recapitulation theory, sometimes known as the Biogenetic Law or " Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny ".

" Although such similarities have given rise to arguments for the existence of a standardized system of urban layout and planning, the similarities are largely due to the presence of a semi-orthogonal type of civic layout, and a comparison of the layouts of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa shows that they are in fact, arranged in a quite dissimilar fashion.

Although it has morphological similarities with the pygmy killer whale, the false killer whale and the pilot whales, a study of cytochrome b gene sequences by Richard LeDuc indicated that its closest extant relatives are the snubfin dolphins of the genus Orcaella.

Although the phenomenon was initially and most frequently reported in the 1950s and 1960s, some researchers – John Keel and others – have suggested similarities between Men in Black reports and earlier demonic accounts.

Although Till removes the planks of the bridge instead of sawing them there are some similarities to Till Eulenspiegel ( 32nd History ).

Although this has similarities with a structured architecture, the connections between peers are not determined by any algorithm.

Although originally the goal was to catch and surf the waves, a racing modality has emerged with similarities to kayaking.

Although often described as an evolution of Marxism / Leninism, Maoism is defined more by its theoretical and ideological departures from orthodox Marxism or Leninism than by its similarities to the Western versions of modern socialism.

Although far from being universally accepted as true cloud forests, several forests in temperate regions have strong similarities with tropical cloud forests.

Although the latter has some similarities to Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, including starring Jean Arthur and being directed by Capra, its 1939 screenplay was actually based on an out-of-print novel, The Gentleman from Montana and was an entirely unique and unrelated project.

Although crossovers typically occur between homologous regions of matching chromosomes, similarities in sequence can result in mismatched alignments.

Although the stories were completely independent and shared no common characters they had some similarities that made it logical to combine them.

Although cluster sampling and stratified sampling bear some superficial similarities, they are substantially different.

Although Arminius and Wesley both vehemently rejected this view, it has sometimes inaccurately been lumped together with theirs ( particularly by Calvinists ) because of other similarities in their respective systems such as conditional election, unlimited atonement, and prevenient grace.

Although unclear, the local term for " cat " in several Austronesian languages have similarities to the word " pussy ".

Although each language of the family is mutually unintelligible, their similarities are rather striking.

Although the variations among conceptions of Chinese nationalism are great, Chinese nationalist groups maintain some similarities, most notably Ultra-imperialism.

Although they originated in different continents, similarities have often been noted between gypsy swing and western swing, leading to various fusions.

Although parallels between Monroe Stahr in the novel and Thalberg were evident, many who knew Thalberg intimately stated that they did not see similarities in their personalities.

Although Capricorn One is thematically a typical 1970s government-conspiracy thriller with similarities to Hyams's subsequent film Outland, the story was inspired by conspiracy theories surrounding the Apollo Moon landings.

Although there are many similarities between the two, they differ in some fundamental aspects, particularly regarding man's quest toward spiritual perfection and the manner by which the followers of each practice their beliefs.