Comment on Whales is whales

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait, seals are sea doggos, right? Whales are sea cows.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cetaceans evolved from a wolf like creature, not a bigine like one.

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Did they? Wiki tells me “that cetaceans are phylogenetically closely related with the even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla)”. By the way, I like the fact that we’re both angry :)

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It depends on what you want to call pakicetus, I think it looks kinda dog like.

        …berkeley.edu/…/the-evolution-of-whales/

        The DNA may tell an entirely different story.

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But manatees are sea cows

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are called sea cows, but they’re really sea elephants? I hope I’m not terribly wrong.

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      • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why elephants? I mean whales are not cows just by looking at what they eat. In that way manatees eating mostly sea plants are closer to being cows. Are they not?

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whst are dugongs hen?

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Never heard of them

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    • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are similar to manatees but thinner and droopier in the snout. Hang out mainly in asia

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Dunno. I said the former were sea doggos because they all evolved from some wolf-like creature

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