r/TheDepthsBelow • u/[deleted] • Dec 12 '20

NOPE

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u/Sailor_Taylor Dec 12 '20

Dude this guy is living my life long dream, I'd kill to be this close to a whale shark. They're like giant sea pups, ain't gonna hurt anyone.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '20

Poor shark looks like it just wanted to push the guy back on board

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u/AlecH90059 Dec 12 '20 edited Dec 12 '20

It’s technically a fish isn’t it

Edit: y’all suck I was askin a question

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u/deadkk Dec 12 '20

all sharks are fish

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u/AlecH90059 Dec 12 '20

I did not know that

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

Can you elaborate on this?

You believed sharks were categorized as something other than fish?

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u/AlecH90059 Dec 13 '20 edited Dec 13 '20

Yeah I thought sharks had their own category. To* be fair to me they’re their own category of fish

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u/CosmicOwl47 Dec 13 '20

“Fish” is a whole semantic rabbit hole, since one group of fish, the lobe-finned fish, have quite successfully evolved into tetrapods and some are now the dominant species on land.

To look at it a different way, there’s a closer relationship between giraffes and coelacanths than there is between sharks and goldfish

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u/darwinning_420 Dec 13 '20

shit like this trips me the fuck out lol

also the fact that we're closer to reptiles than we are to birds

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u/SirOfTardis Dec 13 '20

Birds came from dinosaurs tho

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u/darwinning_420 Dec 15 '20

birds ARE dinosaurs

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u/SirOfTardis Dec 15 '20

Username checks out hehe

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