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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

It has a South Park mouth

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

"When we shine ze light on it..."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Zeeky booky doog

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Preschool teacher: draw a happy fish Preschool student:

[–] TacoButtPlug 1 points 5 hours ago

Oh. We evolved from a googley eyed water hamhock.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

proto whale has an emoji face

[–] Kellenved 23 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

She call me Mr. Boombastic

Sacabambaspis

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Wow. This is epic internet!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago
[–] drspawndisaster 18 points 1 day ago

Prototype fish

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The eyes would suggest it's a predator.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours 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.

[–] flambonkscious 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, millions of years ago we were this fish

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

It depends whether you subscribe to the belief of reincarnation. There's always a possibility that you're actually reincarnated from an alien in Andromeda somewhere and the reason why you can't remember anything is because the memory format of the alien physiology is not compatible with human brain.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fish of Theseus

…I’m sorry

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Now? No. Then? Absolutely.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Look! The Lobotomite has returned!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How does it maneuver without any fins?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not well. That's why most of its ancestors have fins nowadays

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

I often wonder that about your mom

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

It is cute, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

That is such a shit fish. I love it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

🎶🎶Sacasacabambambaspapispis🎶🎶 🎶🎶Sacasacabambambsapapispis🎶🎶

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] TacoButtPlug 1 points 5 hours ago

Catchy. サカサカバンバンバスピスピス ...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

As a matter of fact, don't let nothin' hold you back. If the Scat Man can do it, brother, so can you!

[–] zaphodb2002 4 points 1 day ago

For some reason reminded me of this

[–] Mouselemming 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

Edit: oh geez, I misunderstood your message. It totally could have been a rainbow party blimp. That mostly depends on what their habitat was like.

[–] Mouselemming 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for editing not deleting because TIL!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Of course! I'm a biologist, I try to use my powers for good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Somethin’ like a fish.

[–] funkless_eck 5 points 1 day ago

me when the event

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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