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[-] HostilePasta@lemmy.ml 92 points 1 week ago

I was going to say that I have an awesome book about this stuff, and then I saw the author of the post is the author of that book. The book is called "Your Inner Fish" and it is EXCELLENT.

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] HostilePasta@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Excuse me, what?! Going to have to check that out ASAP.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 21 points 1 week ago

aaaaaaaaaand... straight on the pile.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Ditto. ๐Ÿ˜„

[-] delgato@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

The intro paleontology class I took had this for mandatory reading, definitely one of my favorite non-fiction books.

[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago

I started out as a fish, how did it end up like this?

[-] borth@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago

I was only a fish... i was only a fish!! ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

I was only a fish, now, watch me take a breath now, here we go

My need for air is killing me, and taking control...

[-] _____@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Don't cry, I am just a fish !

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago
[-] Zron@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

We must return to the ocean.

Accept the crab form, embrace it and all the limbs we shall gain.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

๐Ÿฆ€๐Ÿฆ€๐Ÿฆ€

Probably wrong here but if the divergence happened before gills were formed then we both evolved secondary jaws for different purposes

Also those structures seem to take up an awfully big part of the embryo if they're going to just become the hyoid and jaw, is there a more in between shot of the embryo developing?

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And now my anxiety disorder uses of all of them to gradually destroy my tooth enamel and temporomandibular joints. Thanks evolution!

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Our inner ears used to be part of the more complex jaws of something before us, if I remember correctly. I think thereโ€™s an arrow on the image showing it. Real cool.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 10 points 1 week ago

Why is the shark embryo adorable and ours is not?

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

They're a lot more similar irl than you'd expect.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

that turtle one is cool

[-] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 8 points 1 week ago

Because we are ugly, mutant fish.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Ugly, ugly giant bags of mostly water.

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Baby humans are adorable though. Baby sharks on the other hand...

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 12 points 1 week ago

Doo do doo dododoo.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ocean Man, take me by the hand,

lead me to the land, that you understand

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

OCeeean MAAAan.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Please babe! I can change! Here's proof!

[-] uberfreeza@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

This is something that gets examined pretty well in Your Inner Fish, particularly in the chapter named Your Inner Shark. It analyzes how the embryo develops and how the embryos are very similar to start.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Check out the username of the original post

[-] uberfreeza@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That's why I mention it!

[-] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Mafia be like: "back to the ocean you go"

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Sleep wit da fishes ya bum

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Kind of a shame that our fish ancestors didn't have more gills. I wonder what we're missing. I mean, we're obviously missing something, right?

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