• VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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    15 hours ago

    I’m a bit thick. Not certain if this is a joke that went over my head or not.

    Im still in a rabbit hole trying to understand why some aren’t dinosaurs.

    • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
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      14 hours ago

      If you take the tree of life showing the evolutionary branch, you won’t be able to pick off a branch that includes all of the things you would think of as “fish” but excludes all of the things you think of as “not fish”.

      The reason for that is that all land animals with a four limb body plan, including reptiles, mammals, and birds dinosaurs evolved from a family of fish called tetrapods. But there are still tetrapods in the ocean that you would think of as “fish”, and I don’t mean whales.

      Hank Green has a much more entertaining and complete discussion at https://youtu.be/-C3lR3pczjo

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Basically all life on Earth that’s not some bacteria or fungi originally developed in the oceans, and only later adapted to life on land. If you go back far enough, the common ancestor of anything that walks, crawls, or flies ultimately originally swam.