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Eels are fish

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178 points speckx | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ajnin ◴[03 Sep 25 22:27 UTC] No.45121064[source]▶
I'm surprised to learn that it is surprising that eels are fish. I mean, they live in water, they have fins, they're generally fish-shaped... What's more surprising is their incredible life cycle and reproductive journey. I'm surprised the author didn't put that in the title.
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Joker_vD ◴[03 Sep 25 22:37 UTC] No.45121131[source]▶
Oh, but you should not classify living beings according to their habitat and behaviour; classification based on the degree of the phylogenetical relationship is obviously superior and the only truly reasonble one.
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klipt ◴[04 Sep 25 00:29 UTC] No.45121998[source]▶
Phylogenetically, land vertebrates like us are fish too - we're descended from lobe finned fish.

So technically whales are fish, because all mammals are fish!

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1. peanut-walrus ◴[04 Sep 25 07:06 UTC] No.45124427[source]▶
Of course whales are fish. Just look at them.