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Re: Dinosaur-bird link on 30 Rock
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:33 AM, David Marjanovic
<david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:
>> Âand, as I keep telling my students, humans are fishes, but for some
>> Âstrange reason, paleontologists never make a hype about that ;-)
>
> We just say "vertebrates" instead of "fishes".
>
> In the long run, I think "fish" should be restricted to Actinopterygii. It's
> already slowly retreating from the chondrichthyans in my impression.
>
I went man what? when one of those cgi docs (Sea Monsters?) spoke of
"fishes and sharks" a few years ago, but itÂd be a good change in the
long run.
--
Andreas Johansson
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?