You’re forgetting our first land ancestor, the fish that decided to come up on land. By certain definitions, all land animals that descended from that ancestor are fish.

It’s an obscure biology joke. Doesn’t play into day-to-day conversations. It is the same logic that causes biologists to say that birds are dinosaurs though—because they descended from dinosaurs. But by the same logic, birds also evolved from lizards, and before that amphibians, and from before that fish, etc. This definition is more like putting all of life into nested boxes. Or perhaps it’s more like the saying “all tigers are felines, but not all felines are tigers”.

This definition is helpful for evolutionary biologists to talk about evolution at grand scale and how we might share certain genes with fish. But it’s admittedly not very helpful for day-to-day conversations that say humans are pretty distant from fish and don’t resemble them much at all now. (Though I admittedly love little biology facts like how our middle ear bones evolved from gills.)

Anyway. I get silly excited about this stuff. Random nerdy rant done.

I’m a trombone fan myself

But when someone can play a good French horn to a melancholy tune, it hits right.

Awww

Artist?

I’d imagine there might be just a bit of under-reporting. People probably try to hide it.

I live near some polygamist colonies where they are pretty… nested. And they definitely don’t talk to the government about it.

Ya know. A lot of people working in laboratory science can’t find jobs in the US right now. That’s MAGA’s fault. Now MAGA’s complaining about China pulling ahead in some areas of medical science, like they can’t figure out cause and effect. It’s very painful.

I think that gives me more thalassophobia than any animal I could find in open ocean.