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the welsh are fish (quokk.au)
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[-] azi@mander.xyz 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Broke: Whales are fish because they look like other fish

Woke: Whales aren't fish because they're in the class Mammalia, not Pisces

Bespoke: Whales are fish because any monophyletic group that encompasses all the fishes must also include the clade Tetrapoda

Artichoke: Whales aren't fish because fishes are a paraphyletic group that includes the entire clade Vertebrata at the exclusion of the clade Tetrapoda.

Stick and Poke: Whales are fish because they've developed the same bodyplan and are in the same ecological niche as the pelagic fishes.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Tadpoles are fish too, right?

And they even have gills.

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