Comment on Whales is whales

• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Pakicetus looks really cute in this reconstruction! I’ve always seen the species pictured looking as a kind of a big rat. This is so much better.

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• Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But manatees are sea cows

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  • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • shuzuko@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think it’s a joke about manatees having evolved from the same land-based ancestor as elephants, making them pretty literally “sea elephants”.

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