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O'Rlly? :) Try this https://www.quantamagazine.org/extra-dna-may-make-unlikely-hybrid-fish-possible-20200805/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/extra-dna-may-make
by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
O'Rlly? :)
Try this https://www.quantamagazine.org/extra-dna-may-make-unlikely-hybrid-fish-possible-20200805/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/extra-dna-may-make-unlikely-h...
“I’m still confused. My jaw is still on the floor,” said Prosanta Chakrabarty, an ichthyologist at Louisiana State University and the curator of fishes at its Museum of Natural Science. “It’s like if they had a cow and a giraffe make a baby.” Then he quickly corrected himself, because the lineages of those two ruminants split only a few dozen million years ago. The evolutionary paths of paddlefish and sturgeons diverged 184 million years ago. For those fish to breed is more like “if a human came out of a platypus egg,” he said.
I think this may be the weirder.