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fishyfishyfishtimes · 2 years ago

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Daily fish fact #500

🎉🐟🎊500 daily fish facts reached! 🎊🐟🎉

And I could not have done it without you.

🐟🐟🐟 Thank you. 🐟🐟🐟

From the bottom of my ranch-filled heart.

Perhaps this much celebration is already enough, let's move onto the actual fact...

General fish fact!

The very first animals that could be considered fish appeared around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period. They've been evolving and diversifying ever since! With 35 000 discovered extant species and counting, there are more species of fish than there are species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined.

#theres about 6 400 extant species of mammals #about 10 000 extant bird species #10 000 extant reptiles (other than birds i mean)#and 8 200 extant amphibian species #now. different sources have different numbers for fish confusingly.... but fishbase as of now lists that there are 35 100 to be more exact!#its all very fascinating! perks of having a nice headstart to all the other groups of vertebrates #fish #fishfact #fish facts #fishblr #marine biology #biology #zoology

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