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Bees don't have lungs. (mander.xyz)
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/31/they-survived-fire-and-lead-poisoning-so-what-happened-next-to-notre-dames-bees-aoe

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

From what I understand, this is sorta like a hangover from pre-DNA taxonomy. We went "yeah, those all look like fish, we'll put them in the fish group", only to find out later that a bunch of them weren't very closely related at all. So now we have a 'fish' group that's a total mess, and we're in the middle of getting it organized and re-labelled.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah exactly lol science is full of silly stuff like that but that's the price of knowledge and of using models to understand things. Same with trees and such, they look alike to us so we call a lot of organisms trees but they are VASTLY different from each other in many cases

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Excellent pic and excellent username. The tooooth!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks frigidaphelion!

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