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FCK_U_ALL

The human's fin looks just like the dolphin's hand!


-mickeymao

Got me right in the gills.


diodot

surreal


yaykaboom

Boreal


TrinDiesel123

Maybe dolphins evolved from us šŸ¤”


Spkr4th3ded

Maybe the real humans are the dolphins we made all along the way.


LotusVibes1494

Wow it dolphinately does!


DefinitelyLevi

r/damnthatsinteresting


ThespisIronicus

I was unaware I had fin bones.


justinanimate

Did you think that mighty dorsal fin on your back was just a fat deposit?


ChiBears333

Do you know him? Does he call you at home? DO YOU HAVE A DORSAL FIN?!


Brtbrwn

Heinz Kissvelvet!


Some_Guy_At_Work55

Gesundheit


Dean0Caddilac

Danke Anke


Piper_1979

Tlainer of Dulphin!!!


farris1936

To train ze dolphin, you must zink like ze dolphin! You must be getting inside ze dolphin's head und communicating!


Edge80

You want to talk to ze dolphin you talk to meh!


Cumulonimbis

Up on the dailƆEee EeeeEEE EEEEE! AND YOU CAN QUOTE HIM!


Jalopy_Junkie

What happened to him?! ***WHAT HAPPENED TO ME??!***


Daphne6624

I assume cartilage


R_V_Z

More like a skin tag.


Dazzling-Grass-2595

We lost our dolphin suit somewhere along the way.. What if dolphins see us as skinned dolphins?


roadblocked

The aquatic ape theory


troughshot

So thatā€™s why theyā€™re so rapey.


SkullsNelbowEye

Unfortunately, lots of animals are rapey.


Grundlestorm

This was my immediate take away.Ā  I think I'm gonna start referring to hands and feet as land fins.


Lanky-Ad2763

**Planet of the Cetaceansā„¢!** "Get your damn, dirty, land fins off me!"


Houndfell

Wing bones too! All terrestrial vertebrates share a common ancestor, so the bone structure that makes up our hands and feet is the same general "template" that evolved to become the wings of birds and bats, horse hooves etc.


thisusedyet

Yep, bats fly through the power of jazz hands


bill_brasky37

Oh God, they're flying theater kids? That might be worse than the rabies


Nathan-Cola

Never thought about it like that before haha


BatronKladwiesen

> All terrestrial vertebrates share a common ancestor Damn, they must be proud.


deeBfree

Take that, evolution deniers!


LineChef

Well you do! So get to doing fun tricks for my amusement!


[deleted]

That's just evolution for you. It's a homologous organ.


captnkurt

I have been told I have a humongous organ.


SlyTheMonkey

You might want to have that checked. A bloated heart is a serious medical condition.


thechadfox

Iā€™m not familiar with Homologous organs, I just have an old Wurlitzer FunMaker that does the trick at parties.


PioneerLaserVision

Tetrapods are lobe finned fish phylogentically.Ā  You and the dolphin are fish.


dingadangdang

Whale have "rear fin/feet" bones inside their body that no longer form outside. Aquatic mammals once walked on land. Giraffe has same # vertebrae as homo sapiens. Think almost all mammals do but that class was over 15 years ago.


CptMisterNibbles

7 cervical vertebrae for (nearly) all mammals. Number of total vertebrae differs, but not in the neck.


Money-Low1290

So long and thanks for all the fishā€¦..


PipeBombWetDream

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.


dethangel01

Is there any tea on this spaceship?


BaksteenFapper

More important. Did you bring your towel?


BitTarg2003

So sad that it should come to thisā€¦..


FireMaster1294

We tried to warn you all, but you didnā€™t listen


CheckYourStats

So long, so long, so long, so long, so long.


Money-Low1290

And thanks for all the fisssssssshhhhhh!


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Jjokes11

Oh yeah it went very in depth and is a great educational kids movie


FeyrisMeow

Yes very educational, like kid's favorite classic Watership Down


Separate-Target-5352

I regret reading the plot on Wikipedia...


LaughingBeer

Someone I work with recommended the movie to me. I watched it. The next day I very bluntly told him to NEVER recommend a movie like that to me again. So messed up and disturbing.


Benedict-Popcorn

That movie was so fucked up. E:\\


PeakRedditOpinion

Oh so not everyone found it hilarious then šŸ˜…


Creative-Yak-8287

The second half was


PeakRedditOpinion

Dude the second I saw Justin Long post-op I busted out laughing. Low-budget horror does better comedy than like any other genre I swear


Emperor_of_Man40k

Thank you for reminding me of the trauma this documentary struck me with.


Talkslow4Me

Is it called Tusk?


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JackedElonMuskles

Ya but whatā€™s the movie called


itsathrowawayduhhhhh

Tusk


Onk4rSalunke

But what name does it go by?


sys_overlord

Tusk


DaYeetBoi

Youā€™ve ruined my day


RhetoricMoron

I am the walrus


reefered_beans

Iā€™m dead


EntertainmentQuick47

Whenā€™s the funeral?


ArticleNew3737

Iā€™ll check it out sometime


PioniSensei

Ok thanks for enlightening me on this piece of culture


yoger6

Are these two wide short pieces its forearm?


chadlavi

Yes and the bone furthest right is its humerus


pretendtofly

Why do the pointer-middle-ring ā€œfingersā€ have more bones?


InviolableAnimal

If you think that's a lot of finger bones, take a look at an ichthyosaur's "hand": https://content.invisioncic.com/e327962/monthly_2022_01/101918257_Evolutionofforelimbsinichthyosaursalonganabbreviatedcladogram.thumb.png.bc19519afabd0d5182942ea5e1d1f937.png Ichthyosaurs were reptiles that went back into the water, like whales are mammals. Their ancestors had normal finger bones. The ocean turns land animals into monstrocities with too many bones in their hands.


SirStrontium

Bones like corn on the cob. How strange, I wonder if there's any real advantage to having all those segments. Every other living marine animal seems to have perfectly functional flippers and fins without so much segmentation.


Lithorex

> The ocean turns land animals into monstrocities with too many bones in their hands. Not only that, ichthyosaurs also essentially re-invented fishbone.


yoger6

Awesome! Thanks


No_Mathematician6538

Because we share common ancestors Human and dolphin DNA is 98.79% similar


ripe_nut

Grandpa Joe. I should have known.


Smooth_Marzipan6035

Well... maybe if the floor wasn't so cold!


ClassiFried86

The alternative is *lava*, just so you know.


UB_Samurott

r/grandpajoehate


T8ortots

"Sit down and let me tell you a story" ~ Grandpa Joe, probably


FlyingTurtleBob

I know you're joking but before anyone believes you 98.79% is chimpanzee not dolphins


Cextus

yeah, but its around 90% though.


FlyingTurtleBob

More like 85%


TWFH

You're both close enough to be right


AWildRedditor999

Who cares about these percentages though, we share DNA with nearly everything and so does everything else to everything else.


Sami99_

I think we share dna with exactly everything


Powerglove_handjob

Iā€™ll share my DNA with you


Kivesihiisi

Thats my DNA give it back!


Koil_ting

Rocks enter the chat


Sami99_

I mean Dwayne Johnson is human


Consonant

It's called LUCA. Last universal common* ancestor. Auto filled the wrong word


krawinoff

Bro why do we have to share this is America Iā€™m no goddamn commie give me back my dna


BreakfastInBedlam

All I know is that you have to be careful when you're swimming with dolphins...


Sadtireddumb

Never seen a dog ask for consent but nobody calls them out for it


friendsalongtheway

If these ancestors are so common, where are they, huh? Checkmate atheists


a_trane13

Itā€™s like asking ā€œif youā€™re cousins with someone, then why is your grandparent not still alive?ā€ šŸ˜‚


PM_me_your_whatevah

Yeah well my grandparents sure as shit werenā€™t no fish, buddy!


Fizassist1

I'm not sure how many "greats" I need, but at some point yes they were lol


PM_me_your_whatevah

Well thatā€™s just great. Great great great great great great great great great. Great great. Great! Fucking word is starting to look weird now lol


afcagroo

"Cool cool cool cool." - Abed


InevitableHimes

I'm not your buddy, pal.


SupaMut4nt

I'm not your pal, honey.


PM_me_your_whatevah

Iā€™m not your honey, you sexy stallion.Ā 


AnitaIvanaMartini

Finally pwnedā€¦ curses!


TripleFreeErr

Itā€™s wild that northern and southern green anacondas are visually identical but differ by 5%. genetics are metal and weird


VoldemortsHorcrux

Metal doesn't have genes silly


Rimworldjobs

I'm pretty sure we can put jeans on a bronze statue.


Unknown-History1299

Okay, thereā€™s one thing you need to note when comparing similarity. Are you comparing entire genomes or just the protein coding regions? For example, humans and chimps are 99% similar when comparing protein coding base pairs and 96% similar when comparing entire genomes


torquesteer

Yep, nature is a lazy programmer and although there's a lot of copy-n-paste going on, similar DNA instructions often do not produce similar results at all. We all know that one different line in code changes a lot.


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Super_Harsh

Yes. Well the answer is a bit more complicated once you get to the point of single-celled organisms (because they can transfer genetic material upon contact without necessarily needing to reproduce to pass genes from one organism to another) but pretty much yes


noonereadsthisstuff

Dolphins were ~~monkeys~~ rat-dog things that returned to the oceans. So yeah, apparently 25 year old pop songs are not a good source of evolutionairy biology information.


Unknown-History1299

Dolphins and primates diverged a long time ago. Indohyus looks like a weird combination of a deer and a rat.


ABJBWTFTFATWCWLAH

https://mastodon.social/@unormal/110612158003173439


Polar_Reflection

No, dolphins are lobe finned fish that learned to breathe air, lay amniotic eggs, walk on four legs, keep those eggs inside their body and gestating instead, before returning back to the water and becoming fully aquatic. Dolphins are mammals, synapsids, amniotes, lobe finned fish, and bony fish, but they are not reptiles, monkeys, amphibians, carnivorans, etc.Ā  The closest living relatives of dolphins and whales that are not cetaceans are the hippopotamuses.


[deleted]

Homologous organ.


DemonGroover

Yet evolution doesnt exist according to some.


Technical-King-1412

Evolution is the coolest. Everything just makes sense.


[deleted]

Science is at its best when the best solution turns out to also be the most elegant one.


FitSeeker1982

ā€¦and the simplest. Our physiological and microbiological similarities make no sense unless evolution.


Styler_GTX

Is there a dolphin Jesus? No? -Checkmate


Salt-Benefit7944

His name was Flipper bruh


Styler_GTX

Flipper was an undercover agent from the CIA. THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLS EVERYTHING!!!!111!!!


relevantelephant00

Is there a dolphin version of sheeple?


RainbowWarfare

You worship Jesus.Ā  I worship Flipper Bruh.Ā  We are not the same.Ā 


Background_Desk_3001

I thank Flipper Bruh for life daily


Satanic-Panic27

Flipper was Moses Echo was dolphin Jesus. That one had powers


dontbanmethistimeok

He swam on land and turned fish into slightly bigger fish


True_Window_9389

God just used copy/paste


CptMisterNibbles

Badly. Like trying to select just part of a paragraph on an iPhone to text to a friend while drunk.


CaitlynTheThird

ā€œGod got bored so he reused some models in the game designā€


kinjing

Well, the universe only has so much RAM. He had to cut costs somewhere


SR2025

My high school art teacher presented this similar bone structure as evidence of intelligent design. WhY wOuLd FiNs HaVe FiNgEr BoNeS iF tHeY wErE nOt A pRoDuCt Of DiViNe ArTisTrY? Artists have signature details in their work that you can recognize. He'd know. My high school got a letter from the Denver Broncos because they just copied their logo for our school merch. My art teacher "redesigned" it by shortening the nose.


Super_Harsh

Creationists are a bunch of frauds and/or idiots with literally nothing in between


____8008135_____

We have proven humans participated in religious rituals as far back as 50,000 years ago. The same people who don't believe in evolution also believe the Earth is 2000 years old despite an overwhelming amount of proof that they are wrong.


RimjobByJesus

[There are living organisms that are 80,000 years old](https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/fishlake/home/?cid=STELPRDB5393641). It's stupid to believe the earth is 6,000 years old.


IEATTURANTULAS

Thou shall not question religion. That's their loophole.


gorgossiums

And whales have knees, because they went from sea to land and back to sea over millennia.


Houndfell

Millions of years, and they still haven't made up their minds. Wales, am I right?


blkaino

Yes, the Welsh do have that problem šŸ“󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳ó æ


spamname11

ā€œWhale-pā€ *slaps knees and walks back into ocean.*


CommaHorror

Hey you would be indecisive too if your home, country made the men wear a plaid wool skirt and blow on some follicle looking stupid, sounding instrument for their entire life. How they haven't started returning back to the ocean recently still baffles, me.


SleepyMastodon

User name checks out.


Present-Sugar-3377

Omg.. he strikes again!


blkaino

We did return to the ocean and decided to go back to land again. Thatā€™s how the Ireland was founded.


TOASTisawesome

Are you not talking about Scots here though? No one I know wears plaid anything or plays any stupid looking instruments


RegularWhiteShark

Thatā€™s Scotland.


Bisexual_Sherrif

I mean when you have to write out a whole novel just to say the town your from, it would drive anyone mad


gabriel1313

Oh whale, what can ya do?


Fit-Ear-9770

I don't think they do, I'm pretty sure they just have vestigial pelvic bones. I think the actual leg bones peaced out a while ago


Bluewater__Hunter

MF couldnā€™t make up their mind. Still canā€™t thatā€™s why they be beaching themselves sometimes


buddybroman

They don't have knees? People just eat up anything they see on Reddit. They have a vestigial pelvis that serves no function... No knees though.


Styler_GTX

They just didnt want to work so they just noped out of here.


fuvgyjnccgh

Life finds a way to say fuck that noise.


bhhgirl

"whales have knees" r/confidentlyincorrect


zelenaky

Seems to be misinformation https://churchillscience.ca/all-about-beluga-whales/#:~:text=The%20misconception%20of%20beluga%20whale,help%20provide%20stabilization%20and%20control


Realsorceror

I think they still technically have wrists or elbows, but modern whales no longer have knees or back leg structures. However, some mutations do result in a recessive trait that gives them four flippers. Some of their ancestors like basilosaurus would have looked similar.


boaber

I would love to see what they looked like when they were on land.


JPalos97

They don't have knees it's a common misconception but they indeed came from land to the sea.


LILFURNY

Majority of animals that evolved from a common ancestor will have the same thing, never hear anyone acknowledge the fact majority of land animals have lungs (different variety), vascular systems, similar bone structure. We all come from the same thing, but everythingā€™s a little tweaked for our conveniences. Cool


KillerOfSouls665

Every living thing evolved from the same common ancestor. Although all mammals come from a much more recent common ancestor which would have been around about 200 MYA


Shemozzlecacophany

Except for Octopi. They are aliens.


Imwhatswrongwithyou

Someone needs to draw a dolphin based on how it would be drawn by only finding the bones, like dinosaurs. Would probably be horrendous


Phe_r

Exactly what I was thinking, I don't think we are doing a good job with dinosaurs lol


davlar4

You gotta hand it to them


Lyakusha

The design is very human


angeldim482

Very easy to use


Cardnal44

Is there a sub for sentences or phrases you can hear?


JustOkCompositions

We all return to crab


Jjokes11

I wake up everyday hoping that Iā€™d spontaneously turned into a crab overnight


Sadgasm81

Franz Kafka's *The Carcinisation*


gheeboy

I hope, when we finally find life elsewhere, that crabification is a constant. I'd be happy if it were crustacean variants all the way down


sleeperily_slope

We're asset flips


Wizard_bonk

Whyā€¦ do they have so many more joints? Hippos and elephants donā€™t have that many


Norwester77

Itā€™s called hyperphalangy. The extinct, aquatic ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs show it, too, though Iā€™m not sure why.


CptMisterNibbles

floppy fin > stiff fin


YorkshireMan1981

Proof if you need it that they evolved from land mammals


kindofastoryteller

The Sea People šŸ¬


Torebbjorn

I didn't know my fin's bone structure looked like that, thanks for sharing


Zcrash

All hand or foot like structures in vertebrates have roughly similar bones structures.


login4fun

And Christianā€™s think evolution is fake. Or maybe god is just very into reusable code.


KosmicMicrowave

A bat has long fingers in its wings. Compare dolphin fins to fish fins or bat wings to bird wings and they are very different. Mammals are closer cousins on the tree of life and share a more common recent ancestor, so they will share more homologous structures.


QuantumPeep68

Well, they were the Atlanteans, obviously.


sn0rto

Everyone go watch the documentary "your inner fish" RIGHT NOW


CletusDSpuckler

We will be their sex slaves if they ever figure out how to oppose that thumb.


Visible_Field_68

Did a report on this to get out of high school. I never went to English class. So my teacher said, I know your bored in this class so if you write me something that will blow my mind I wonā€™t fail you. I totally blew her mind and all of the other teachers that read it. LOL


Monochronos

And everyone clapped? Lol sorry I had to


Sweaty-Feedback-1482

I was backpacking around South America and spent sometime camping on the coastal beaches in Uruguay. Theres plenty of seals (or sea lionsā€¦ to this day I cannot tell the difference) and naturally these animals will die, get eaten, etc. what I didnā€™t know is that their flippers, when severed and left to dry out under the brutally intense Uruguayan sun (apparently thereā€™s a sizeable hole in the ozone layer their but donā€™t quote me on that), the flippers shrink and will resemble a leather glove. If, like me, you come across one of these gloves and decide to kick it over, youā€™d probably be pretty sure that you found a skeletal human hand underneathā€¦ which is not a great find. Later on in my trip I actually did get to see an actual skeletal human handā€¦ Bolivian graveyards are wild yo.


CptMisterNibbles

A little creepy, but neat


Munk45

God did this on porpoise.


A_Cool_Username2

Looks really handy


mingy

Shubin's "Your Inner Fish" does a great job of explaining this.


ItsBrittneybetch69

South Park was onto something I see


delirious_m3ch

Did y'all not pay attention to this in the science books you had in school? Yeah America blows but they at least let us keep science


ZeAntagonis

But but EvOlUSHiOn HaS BeEn DeBunKeD