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Eels are fish

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178 points speckx | 3 comments | 03 Sep 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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boesboes ◴[03 Sep 25 14:37 UTC] No.45116372[source]▶
Apparently we are all fish. Or fish don't exist.

To explain: if you want to define a taxonomy in which all things that look like fish and swim are 'fish' then we are too. We are more closely related to most 'fish' than sharks are. I.e the last common ancestor of herring AND sharks is older than our & herring's LCA.

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1. sestep ◴[03 Sep 25 14:56 UTC] No.45116561[source]▶
For reference, this idea is becoming more popular recently due to the Green brothers: https://youtu.be/-C3lR3pczjo
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2. topaz0 ◴[03 Sep 25 15:53 UTC] No.45117217[source]▶
Or the book "why fish don't exist", which got a lot of press last year if you consume media outside of youtube.
3. IAmBroom ◴[03 Sep 25 16:28 UTC] No.45117675[source]▶
That's a month old. I heard it over a year ago.