look, why would I care about anything about the new 33 year old Wunderkind CEO of Chain I Don't Go To? Tell me about horseshoe crabs or pycnogonids, I have more in common with them and find them far more interesting.

@GraySpots @Leucrotta I dunno, Rin, lobed fishes like coelacanths are more closely related to humans than to bony fishes.

@noelle @Leucrotta That... is almost disturbing. From the fish's point of view.

@GraySpots @Leucrotta We're all fish! Four-legged creatures are all descended from a tree that arose from the lobed-fin fishes. :)

@noelle @Leucrotta I must be an embarrassment to the extended family, what with not being able to swim and all.

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the color is 'cause the oxygen carrying thing is hemocyanin which is copper based instead of iron!

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