Comment on In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast

• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A salmon is more related to, say, a camel than it is to a hagfish.

  I don’t like that one bit.

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    • A bee is more closely related to a hermit crab than it is to a spider (arthropod subphylum Crustacea). A spider is more closely related to a horseshoe crab than it is to a bee (arthropod subphylum Chelicerata).
    • A deer is more closely related to a killer whale (order Artiodactyla) than it is to a human (order Primates).

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    • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So fish are like trees, they look somewhat similar but are completely different

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      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Id personally compare them to fungi, the fish body plan predates trees which is partly why this happens. Turns out that when a body plan predates land life by a significant degree it ends up being quite weird, no I’m not counting the weirdos who happened to go on land before the moss started to get a foothold if you count them then I am sea life.

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