Interestingly, Remipedes were thought be extinct, as the first fossil Tesnusocaris was discovered in 1955 from the Lower Pennsylvanian (the second of two major sub-Periods of the Carboniferous), ~323 MYA. The first living specimen, Speleonectes lucayensis , was discovered by Jill Yager during cave diving in Lucayan Caverns of Lycayan National Park, Grand Bahama Island in 1979. The subsequent paper in the Journal of Crustacean Biology in 1981 gave the name Rempedia, meaning “oar-footed” in Latin, to these creatures.
Does anyone else see a similarity to the Hallucigenia on Attack On Titan, or is just me?
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I mean a fantasy centipedelike creature will look similar to irl centipedelike creatures. The colors match ig, not sure if the limbs do tho
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Gifs seem to have stopped working for me…
It’s probably because Hallucigenia was a real creature(that didn’t have the power to turn people into giants(i think))
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That’s what the anomalocaris mafia wants you to think
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D. terrelli is the largest species of arthrodire fish Dunkleosteus, and the largest preserved specimen of D. terrelli, CMNH 5768, is still displayed in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. It is named after amateur paleontologist Jay Terrell, who first found the fossils on 1867 in Sheffield Lake, Ohio. Dunkleosteus is also a state fossil of Ohio.
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Is this the most famous marine predator of the paleozoic after anomalocarris?
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Probably. I actually heard of the fish before Anomalocaris.
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Iirc don’t fish only start with the jawed ones? Since I’ve recently learned hagfish and lampreys are not fish apparently.
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What gets me about dunk, is that it has eye bones.
That seems like the kind of thing you’d only see on a halloween skeleton.
There is no such thing as a fish taxonomically.
Hagfish and lampreys are vertebrates in the clade agnatha (jawless fish) which is a sister taxon to gnathostomata (jawed fish).
Jawed fish includes both bony fish (‘normal’ fish) and cartilagenous fish (ex. sharks and rays).
The problem is that tetrapods are also bony fish, tetrapods are all land animal with bones.
I think deer hunting is typically excluded when you say you’ve “gone fishing”.
Old english actually had this simpler, where fish just meant ‘lives in water’ so whales and starfish were fish, instead of the mess of all gnathostomata except tetrapods.
So whether or not lampreys and hagfish are fish, is personal preference to whether all vertebrates are fish, since fish is a choosy term to begin with.
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I think those are anchor points for some eye-related muscles and are seen in many other groups too, like dinos.
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This brings me back to those memories of children calling me “dolphin fish” in my elementary school as my actual name literally means “dolphin” in my language. Funny that I just found out there is the genus Coryphaena with a category of fish called “dolphinfish” in English as well and the common species in the genus is called “mahi-mahi”. They look nothing like dolphins but they have a larger size than a regular fish and they also use high-pitched sounds for communication.
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Jellyfish is also totally a fish
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“Þou, lookeþ ðere! Ðere be a fishe made of jelly!”
“Fishe? Ðat is not but mere flotsam.”
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It’s really funny that the word jelly (circa 1300s, referring to a dessert, Gelee) is actually older than using fish more narrowly (started to change around the 1400s). Maybe that was their breaking point lol. ↩︎
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So we’ve been living with a language that has gone insane over half a millenium ago?
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The fact that sea stars and sea jellies were called “fish” always bugged me.
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That’s the old meaning that continue to live like a zombie in this “new” era
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Well, this is the language that, in the 14th century, decided to mostly replace the germanic word hound, with the word dog, which was seemingly made up whole cloth.
Same with pig and hog generally replacing swine, and frosch being completely changed to frog.
Must’ve been a good meme.
Then again, in the 21st century the meme words ‘pog’ and ‘mog’ from nowhere, some things never change.
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I mean it got three letters still going
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if i recall “gge” was a common diminutive, like if we decided to wholesale replace the word dog with “pupper” (pper being a diminutive)
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What did “gge” mean?
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