Thursday, October 3, 2024

Fish Crossings

Why does God have fish swimming across the sky?

So they can get to the other side, silly!

But (failed)attempts at ironic humor aside, this sky-crosser looking really, really like a fossil ostracoderm(?) strongly reminded me of all those scary-looking armored ancient fishes.


Like this "Dunkleosteus":


Whereas this cloud could stand for any one of the short-bodied modern fishes, of which there are many.  Funny how as evolution proceeded over the eons organisms seem to have become less well-defended -- but maybe it means they've become more agile and better at evading predation.






















Like this rather typical species, which turned out to have the atypical name of Tiger Oscar Fish:


*Dunkleosteus and Tiger Oscar Fish courtesy of the internet.

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