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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This was a discovery funded by the National Science Foundation, for whom work, I have the original hand drawn picture hanging in my office. Credit to Zina Deretsky

https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=66379

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I learned in university that the first fish with 4 legs were fully aquatic. They developed them to walk on the ground of the ocean and later used them on land. That would make it a pre-adaptation. So the drawing has the evolutionary steps wrong. Would you agree on it? I'm just curious

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

You should read up on the Tiktaalik. It is a relatively new discovery in 2008. It show that there was any evolutionary step.

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

I think that's what I meant. The legs weren't as developed as I remembered them but neither were they an adaptation after going on land. So the image is right after all, I just underestimated the limbs in the picture and overestimated the limbs of the transitional creature I learned almost a decade ago (so still after 2008). Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is one ugly fish.

I’d bet it fries up as good as any catfish….

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That's my forefather, you monster!

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

I've actually never had catfish before, I've heard people say it's good though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've had it a few times. it's... not something I'd go out of my way to eat. unless grandma was cooking it.

...you don't want to know how much lard was used in that recipe. Which is why hers is so... amazing. funny how that works. fwiw, most of the lard was actually for the pan...but still it'd probably be enough to give your doctor a heart attack.