fish being a general term could be applied to all kinds of aquatic life, and is. Scientifically NO, but also what is a fish? A miserable pile of secrets.
Ok but hear me out if Sharks are fish 🦈. And bony fish are fish 🐠. And mammals 🐼 are more closely related to bony fish than sharks by a cool few to many million years among friends. Then for sure all vertebrates are fish 🐟 .
Yeah, nah. To all the foreigners that means I have carefully considered your position, I'm well aware of the arguments and understand it thoroughly but still reject it.
It's based on evolutionary lineage, right? We are fish; birds are fish; dogs are fish. Nothing new there. But if we find alien life on another world, and they look just like fish, they would not be fish.
Fish isn't a formal taxonomy, and we're not living in a classical world. For me (and most people, afaik), fish is a word that describes an animal that lives underwater and is oblong with fins ("fish-shaped"). Some would also say that gills are required, but I don't care for that nuance.
That said, language is stupid and squishy. Say what you want and as long as the other party understands your intent, communication success and your words were correct!
Well, given that the only clade that contains all animals commonly agreed to be fish is "vertebrates," then if fish are fish, then so are whales. And dogs, cats, cows, penguins, kangaroos, mice, rabbits, turtles, sloths, salamanders, deer, frogs, owls, llamas, elephants, snakes, eagles, AND humans!
THANK YOU. Whales are fish that happen also to be mammals. Those words refer to two different methods of categorizing living things and they are not mutually exclusive.
I sometimes wonder if I’m in a cult and you’re the leader based on the absolute faith I have in everything you say. I guess I’m trying to say, I trust you.
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Truly, we are miracles, each and every one of us.
Non-taxonomic terms with loose, culturally dependent definitions ftw!
Since your ancestors were fish, you are necessarily also a fish under this definition. As are all tetrapod vertebrates.
I am not qualified to debate this, but this conflicts with my taught belief that whales evolved from wolf-like mammals who became aquatic
Anyone else see those videos of whole evolution in the fave sciences museun?
More soon,
Seagulls are fish, too! So there!
PLEASE
THEY ARE MAMMALS
PLEASE DO NOT START THIS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhwcEvMJz1Y
What's next, seals? What are you doing Hank
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Fun fact: it's not just Earth's moon, all moons in our solar system are made of cheese.
Io? Gouda
Titan? Cheddar
Charon? Brie
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcopterygii
Is butt whales?