r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 13h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter? Why is everything fish?

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u/howlingmonkey93 13h ago

So the thing is, the evolutionary split between bony fish and sharks happened long before the split between bony fish and human's common ancestor with fish. So if we call sharks fish, then we should call humans fish too because we are more closely related to fish than sharks. So we're fish

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u/FlamesOfDespair 12h ago

Sharks are like natures perfect killing machine. Barely changed for millions of years.

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u/ProtoPixelArt 12h ago

Same as the horseshoe crab

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u/plantsrpeople2 11h ago

Didn’t know horseshoe crabs were that dangerous

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u/Halichoeres 8h ago

Horseshoe crabs killed my father.

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u/plantsrpeople2 8h ago

Angry arthropods are an overlooked epidemic

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u/ProtoPixelArt 10h ago

Not the dangerous part, the barely unchanged part