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I just realized something; The ultimate counter to people who say flish are impossible
Topic Started: Mar 29 2011, 02:46 PM (565 Views)
Zorcuspine
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I was reading posts on the forum and a lightbulb metaphorically went off in my head. Saying Flish are Impossible&Implausible is bull you know what. You know why? Their already are flish... Their called birds and bats.

See my drift?
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Holben
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Not really.

The birds and bats we have did not arise from the kind of fish we had now.
They came from lobed finned fish, which went to land first before become fliers.
And flish have certain characteristics which birds and bats don't have.

Flying fish stand a better chance. I dunno.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Jasonguppy
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What did the lobies evolve from?
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Holben
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Things which weren't quite like our fish.

Fish have evolved too.

Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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Jasonguppy
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it wouldn't be a flish, but flish are flying animals evolved from fish, so are birds and bats
I do art sometimes.

"if you want green eat a salad"

Projects:
Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.

Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.

❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️
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Holben
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That's a 2D view.
Different fish, different methods of evolution, different situations.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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Indeed, it'd be like saying you can have a flying moose because we have bats, doesn't quite work, hell, it's closer than comparing birds and rayfinned fish.
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