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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So… Millions of years ago, before Pikachu was surprised, we had this fish occupying its niche?

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    • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Image

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    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, millions of years ago we were this fish

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      • DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Technically this is the ship of theseus so are we really this fish?

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    • godlessworm@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Image

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  • Jkosmonaut@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    👁️👄👁️

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    • RST987@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Look! The Lobotomite has returned!

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  • brokenlcd@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s funny when looked sideways, but when looked from the front it’s two distortion filters away from analog horror.

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    • JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Horror already without filters. I’m going to see that thing in my nightmares, fuckin hell.

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      • poinck@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It is cute, isn’t it?

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  • Kellenved@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    She call me Mr. Boombastic

    Sacabambaspis

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    • Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wow. This is epic internet!

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    • nico198x@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      lololo

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  • brap@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That is such a shit fish. I love it.

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  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The eyes would suggest it’s a predator.

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or just that it needs to focus on from of itself like filter crabs, or that it needs to see through things like kelp forests or hole enterances.

      Given it’s size and the extreme binocular vision, it’s unlikely to have any ambush predators.

      I looked it up, it has bony plates all over it’s body and likely a lateral line, so seeing predators directly may have been less necessary. It was also a suction feeder, so likely an active predator of much smaller things. It may have needed good forward vision because it’s maneuverability was poor.

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s what I thought! I’m too stupid to make anything more of it here for this community though

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  • cornshark@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How does it maneuver without any fins?

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    • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I often wonder that about your mom

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    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not well. That’s why most of its ancestors have find nowadays

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      • jorge@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Don’t you mean its descendants?

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  • drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Prototype fish

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  • frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It has a South Park mouth

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “When we shine ze light on it…”

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    • stickyShift@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Zeeky booky doog

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This fish foresaw that evolution would lead to celebrity news, Return To Office mandates, and oversized utes, and decided it was happy precisely where it was.

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Modern fish are often dark on top and light underneath to fool prey/predators but also often colorful. Why do they assume one evolutionary step over the other? That beautiful blimpie belly calls out for decoration!

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    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Functional changes in coloration are much “easier” (read: more likely) to develop through random mutation than functional changes to complex mechanical structures like bone structure or musculature. Given their predecessors were already under selective pressure by predation for millions of years prior, it’s reasonable to assume they’d developed countershading (light bottom, dark top). Plus current agnathans are usually pretty dull.

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      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Thanks for editing not deleting because TIL!

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  • Illogicalbit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Elementary teacher: draw a happy fish Elementary student: <the above picture>

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  • dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ⚬ ▿ ⚬

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  • slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Somethin’ like a fish.

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    me when the event

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  • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I would love to take one from its natural environment and force it to live in a small aquarium.

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  • m3t00@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    proto whale has an emoji face

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  • boreengreen@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Kinda looks like he is about to say “Out of cyan; replace ink cartridge.”

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  • TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh. We evolved from a googley eyed water hamhock.

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  • lorty@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t know why but this creature is funny, scary and ridiculous all at once

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