also chimaeras, the old ancient shark looking fossiles, are related to chimaraes rather than sharks. 300+million years ago.
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Where is the missing land shark?
Checkmate, biologists /s
They work in Wall Street and Insurances.
I knew that sharks were always perfect. Why don't we have a equivalent of shark-inisation (akin to carcinisation fro becoming crabs)
Shark --> shark
<3
Why does it look like the reptile ancestor and the mammal ancestors had offspring together?
That's what you get for going warp 10.
Man… why did you have to remind me of that horrid episode…
They all have one more thing in common: They understood that leaving the oceans was a bad idea.
it's a good thing that the oceans never left you. you carry them inside you everywhere you go. blood is salty because it's a simulacrum of the ocean that we once surrounded ourselves with.
Lungs were a mistake
We needed to bring the ocean into our eyes to see
Same.
“Have you seen what’s going on up there!? Go back to the ocean” -John Evolution in his 1964 speech