and saying a gator is more like abird is retarded

because aligators are like white sharks

they're ancient

I heard Spaniards considered capybara fish so that they could eat it during lent

lizard is lizard. it's up there on the eat list for me. haven't had lizard yet

but ofc you fucking humans don't learn about your foods so you don't know proper taxonomy

@Catboi gators are very closely related to birds, much more so than to sharks

How long ago did birds first appear?

that meat and flesh thing is interesting. that's a kind of distinction that i remember learninga bout when it came to waste aand garbage and trash. the middle one is organs

discarded, of course

Like 60 Mya

This is like saying we're more closely related to blacks than chimpanzese because we're in the same Phylum

fucking retarded

the phylum categorization is up in the air as genetic stuff is getting more accurate

Yeah so you say, you fucking miscegenator

yeah, of gauls and germans. like most people in europe

Whatever you have to say to justify your degeneracy

@Fyrjefe bird taxonomy is really new because a lot of it relies on genetics

Talking about this stuff and saying it changes is retarded because it's based on observation as well as evidence from specimens

Taxonomy has changed ever since it was created

and will continue to change

that doesn't make what I said any less relavent

@Fyrjefe for example until recently they grouped hawks and falcons together (understandably) until modern DNA analysis

@Weepy ìnteresting point. I found out about this actually because they recently found out the asian elephant is quite distantly related to the african one. they share two removed common ancestors.

Listen just because you wanna fuck dogs. Arguing that because science modifies and corrects itself that it somehow justifies it because some animals are moved over and phylums are merging or splitting...

it's just nonsense

This is a ***cat***astrophic argument you guys are making

WAKE UP

I want to start evolving new species of animals, like introducing elephants to colder climates particularly ones with thicker hair so we can have a new species of mammoth

@Fyrjefe Yeah it’s super interesting. Like how if you looked at a salamander and lizard, you’d guess they are closer relatives to eachother than either are to mammals, but that’s not true. Amphibians are the outgroup to all tetrapods. Mammals and reptiles share a more recent common ancestor.

@Lord Zedd they are trying really hard to clone a mammoth I heard

nice

Some animals like dogs are hyper mutable as well, all "species" of dogs are genetically the same species.

@Weepy I wouldn't guess taht, but I don't eat Charcoal

@Old Man Hound false

subspecies are a thing dingus

or you could introduce camels to the Himalayas or the Andes they actually evolved for colder climates so it'd be cool so new breeds come about

and we could introduce elephants to island climates and hope for pygmy elephants that we can have as pets

Well Luigi when CRISPR becomes private we know who will be responsible for the modern island of doctor Moraeu.

no comment....

"Subspecies: A group within a particular species that shares genetic characteristics with other group members but that it doesn’t share with members of the larger species. Subspecies may interbreed quite freely or may be partially reproductively isolated — that is, they can interbreed but don’t do it as well, or produce offspring as viable, as when they mate within their own subspecies group. Subspecies can range from ever-so-slightly-different groups within a species to groups that are on the verge of speciation. For example, the cobra and the pine snake are completely different species, but pine snakes are divided into subspecies, such as the black pine snake, Florida pine snake, and Louisiana pine snake."