Evolutionary fence-sitters
Evolutionary fence-sitters
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I seem to recall that marine mammals are the result of water creatures migrating on to the land, evolving for a while, then some of them going back to the water.
“Yo. Fuck this air, guys. I’m going back.”
You wouldn't believe
https://www.livescience.com/28075-how-whales-ancestors-left-land.html
And since all land vertebrates are descendents of fish, and you can't evolve out of a clade, whales actually are fish.
Hell yeah! Fuck paraphyletic groups.
And so are all of us
and eventually they will get out of the water again to become a crab