• stray@pawb.social
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    5 days ago

    Based on the replies you’ve gotten so far I suspect this may be a joke I’m not getting, but I’m choosing to react as if it’s a genuine question anyway.

    A coelacanth is a super old fish that everyone thought was extinct, and then one day we just happened to find them alive! They’re a “living fossil” animal in that they haven’t changed much in a very long time and give us a window into the past. Here’s a picture I stole:

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      4 days ago

      Too many fins. Don’t like it because it didn’t evolve into something on land. Selfish jerks.