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Approved by kickstarter! Preorder a Lamprey, Hagfish, or set of both so I can make them into enamel pins with these designs:
Both will glow in the dark. For the Lamprey it’ll be glowy teeth, for the hagfish maybe the entire pink base color
Large physical art dump.
It has come to my attention some people want to get me started on the lampreys
Lampreys are a member of the infraphylum Agnatha, meaning they are “jawless fish.” They literally don’t have jaw bones. Instead they have horrific, nightmarish mouths that look like giant, tooth-lined plungers.
They prove just how fake the term “fish” really is. Scientifically, we can only consider something a clade if it includes a common ancestor and ALL of its descendants. (This means that it’s not a scientifically valid group if all of its descendants aren’t in it.)
So, what does that mean? Well. If our jawless fish friends, lampreys and hagfish, are fish, that means every single Gnathostome is a fish.
Gnathostomes are… jawed vertebrates.
As such, tuna, alligators, frogs, raccoons, cats, and people are also fish.
I’d like to draw attention to this tag, because I’m a nerd
They are right! There IS no such thing as a fish! Sharks and trout, for example, are both considered fish, but trout are MUCH more closely related to humans than they are to sharks, making “fish” an invalid classificatory group (and don’t even get me started on lampreys)