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It's utterly nonsensical to think that millennia of "fish swim" should be thrown out in favor of a century of "fish share DNA".
by o11c 2y ago
It's utterly nonsensical to think that millennia of "fish swim" should be thrown out in favor of a century of "fish share DNA".
- inglor_cz 2y agoHmm, my wife likes to swim, I better start calling her my fish. Whales need to take breaths on the surface, unlike fish, which can stay underwater basically indefinitely. Without that difference, whaling would be a lot more complicated, if not outright impossible, especially in the 19th century - you just can't catch a huge solitary animal in an ocean on purpose if it doesn't have to surface from time to time. Or only with sheer luck. Even the ancient whalers were aware of the fact that whales need to breathe, and thus, at the very least, could say "well, these are some rather special fish, you know".
- tekla 2y agoThere are fish that can breathe normal air such as the gar.