Thursday, October 3, 2024

Fish Crossings

Why did the fish cross the sky?

To get to the other side, silly!

But (lame)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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