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Fish is not a scientific classification.
The shitpost is correct. Bony fish, or the superclass Osteichtyes, absolutely is a scientific classification, and by the way modern cladistics work, every single thing descended from them, which includes all terrestrial mammals, reptiles etc. are also bony fish.
In other words, if the common ancestor of tuna and squirrels and whales is a bony fish, they are all bony fish. The squirrel and whale cannot be demoted from their bony fish status.
I fish?
You wish
Aww yish
Yes, yes, tomatoes are fruit, and birds are dinosaurs
Would you like your fried dinosaur strips with fruit purée?
And apes are monkeys.
Whales, dolphins, porpoises, and orcas are all sea doggos
Wait, seals are sea doggos, right? Whales are sea cows.
But manatees are sea cows
They are called sea cows, but they’re really sea elephants? I hope I’m not terribly wrong.
Why elephants? I mean whales are not cows just by looking at what they eat. In that way manatees eating mostly sea plants are closer to being cows. Are they not?
Cetaceans evolved from a wolf like creature, not a bovine like one.
Did they? Wiki tells me “that cetaceans are phylogenetically closely related with the even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla)”. So a horse is closer than a cow, but a cow is much closer than a dog. By the way, I like the fact that we’re both angry :)
It depends on what you want to call pakicetus, I think it looks kinda dog like.
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/what-are-evograms/the-evolution-of-whales/
The DNA may tell an entirely different story.
Pakicetus looks really cute in this reconstruction! I’ve always seen the species pictured looking as a kind of a big rat. This is so much better.
What are dugongs hen?
Never heard of them
They are similar to manatees but thinner and droopier in the snout. Hang out mainly in asia
Dunno. I said the former were sea doggos because they all evolved from some wolf-like creature
yeah i know dugongs could be the “sea cows” too
If both trout and sharks are fish, then so are whales. Mammals are more closely related to trout than trout are to sharks.
Shrimps is bugs, whales is whales
Monke is fish.
