• rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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    13 hours ago

    How do we know none of the fish species never had lungs? Isn’t it impossible to define a fish biologically without excluding a whole bunch of land living species?

    • muhyb@programming.dev
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      11 hours ago

      We probably can’t. It’s just lungs are more complex than gills and usually evolution goes towards to more complex systems. If you’re talking about classification, I wouldn’t say impossible. Though I’m not a taxonomist.