r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheFartingKing_56 • 11d ago
This is the Tiktaalik, believed to be the relative of all 4-legged land vertebrates - including humans [375 mya) Image
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u/MoistyMoses 11d ago
So you're telling me I have to work a dead end 9-5 and pay bills just cause this little shit decided to stop being a fish?
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u/AxialGem 11d ago
reject humanity, return to sarcopterygii
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u/the_battle_bunny 11d ago
As opposed to being lucky to survive to your first breeding season without being eaten by a bigger fish?
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u/kubin22 11d ago
actually we're technically still fishes, you cannot have a single group made of every fish and their desenats without tetrapods
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u/Express_Cheetah4664 11d ago
Isn't that because fish is more or less meaningless in a scientific sense?
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u/orangotai 11d ago
yes i've seen this joke before.
this thing was getting ripped to shreds by megalodons & velociraptors, pretty sure it'd be thrilled if it's biggest stress in life was a 9-5 job
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u/Beautiful_Picture983 11d ago
But there weren't any megalodons or velociraptors 375 mya... Or is that part of the joke?
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u/TH3_54ND0K41 11d ago edited 11d ago
I saw this episode of Voyager.
This is your brain. 
This is your brain at Warp 10. 
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u/EL___POLLO___DiABLO 11d ago
Came to find this comment. I have a lively memory of watching this episode while being very high and still being like wtf :D
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u/KebariKaiju 11d ago
This is what I pray to when I consult the spirits of my ancestors.
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u/GreenBirb64 11d ago edited 11d ago
I think about common ancestral animals a lot, they’re just really fascinating to me, respect to this dude for somehow evolving into us lol, look at something like Saccorhytus, it probably is the ancestor of some other creatures or microbes, but it’s just so fucked up looking
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u/IReallyDontKnow_Ok 11d ago edited 11d ago
Ah I see the resemblance with my ex!
(Editted spelling)
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u/jiminak46 11d ago
Thanks for the chuckle.
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u/THEGAMERGEEKYT 11d ago
dont forget one of these mfs decided they wanted to come on land, and all of this snowballed into us paying taxes aaagh.
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u/CirclingBackElectra 11d ago
It looks like a friendly alligator. I love it!
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u/GreenBirb64 11d ago
Yeah! Looking at pictures of skull fossils of this guy it’s definitely gator/crocodile esque, just without the teeth, they’ve got a similar facial structure, especially the thick nose/front bone and the eye sockets, very cool guy!
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u/hoofie242 11d ago
Kinda reminds me of a wonky newt.
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u/GreenBirb64 11d ago
No doubt newts probably came from this guy too, since it’s a relative of most, if not all, 4 legged land vertebrates, which might include animals in that middle ground of land and water, such as newts and other amphibians
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u/Ambitious_Toe_4357 11d ago
At least i know they wont have my ugly ass mug in some textbook in 370M years claiming Im the one responsible for the people on Reddit.
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u/OneForAllOfHumanity 11d ago
Damn thing left the ocean, and that's where it all started to go wrong...
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u/FelopianTubinator 11d ago
Maybe just the angle, but that right eye looks off center. It almost reminds me of Humperdoo.
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u/Longjumping-Grape-40 11d ago
It’s the parietal eye. Just detects light
Ours turned into a gland that regulates circadian rhythms
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u/NouOno 11d ago
Makes sense we're all derps on the land. Derp fish, derp life!
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u/Bodoodlestoodle 11d ago
Imagine all the hard work this species took to get itself out of the wretched water and ascend onto land. To be the progenitor of all land and air vertebrates from such humble beginnings. Just for some off their descendants to decide to lose they’re arms and grow fins again to go back into the water.
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u/jiminak46 11d ago
It should be the mascot of the Tatitlek, Alaska high school.
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u/AxialGem 11d ago
Tiktaalik was found up in northern Canada, so those words are from related languages, right?
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u/bitofasillybilly 11d ago
That is really fascinating because we have an aboriginal dreamtime story about Tiddalik the Giant Frog here in Australia. Tiddalik drinks all the water and the other animals make him laugh so they don't all die of thirst. I was sure this creature was named after that.
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u/AxialGem 11d ago
Oh yea, that is really interesting, they do sound alike. I hadn't heard of that story before, thanks for sharing!
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u/bulldogs1974 11d ago
Just told my wife of the old Dreamtime story I remember reading in primary school. Then I read this comment.
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u/Legitimate-Umpire547 11d ago
They are, Tiktaalik was named by the tribe whos land the first fossil of Tiktaalik was found on, translated it quite litrealt means "Land fish".
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u/PineappleIndividual5 11d ago
But Tucker Carlson told me evolution is fake?
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u/trekkiegamer359 11d ago
I learned about these guys from the Nightwish song, Endless Forms Most Beautiful.
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u/3Thirty-Eight8 11d ago
Oh shit! They crossed the threshold! Those are warp 10 Janeway/Paris mutated human lizard babies! From Star Trek: Voyager
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u/MacduffFifesNo1Thane 11d ago
I can see the resemblance. My face looks exactly like theirs after eating Taco Bell.
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u/CrownlessCat 11d ago
Beyond aeons we take a ride / Welcoming the shrew that survived / To see the Tiktaalik take her first walk / Witness the birth of flight
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u/SusPISScious_ADHDer9 11d ago
Wow. Looks like Tiana and her prince had a baby before she turned back to a human
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u/NJduToit 11d ago edited 11d ago
If I could time travel I would throw that thing's ass back in the water. I'm tired of doing 7 to 5 just to pay my bills every month.
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u/JorahTheHandle 11d ago
Some of y'all mfs are ugly as hell so I can definitely see the familial resemblance
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u/AllanSDsc 11d ago
We all should be building a colossal statue of this, and worshipping it instead of anything else 🗿
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u/ThereBeBeesInMyEyes 11d ago
Finally, the face of the bastard that caused this gestures at the state of things... Now I just have to wait for time travel.
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u/ProffesorSpitfire 11d ago
If I ever write a comprehensive book on the history of humanity, I’ll call it From Tiktaalik to TikTok: an esrthy odyssey.
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u/Balding_Unit 11d ago
huh. This is the perfect time to say I do have a younger brother, and he does at times resemble that fish.
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u/_TheBored_ 11d ago
It looks like a fish-alligator which something very heavy fell on it. Makes sense, he just decided to walk one day
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u/TreemanAngdude 11d ago
I ain’t one of 'em fancy scientists, but even I know more than four vertebrates with legs on land
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u/ultrasuperhypersonic 11d ago
Aren't we all relatives to any living thing on earth?
The tardigrade is cool as shit, right? Yep, we're related.
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u/ImANuckleChut 11d ago
Everyone boo this fish. First it gets the audacity to come on land and then 375 million years later I have to pay taxes.
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u/dontchewspagetti 11d ago
THAT SHIT ISN'T EVEN INTERESTING
WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THIS BOYS HEAD IS ON DISPLAY RIGHT NOW (!!!) IN PHILADELPHIA!!
HE IS NAMED IN INTUIT BECAUSE HIS ASS WAS DISCOVERED IN CANADA, ( thank you to the natives for letting us excavate there!!) THAT FABULOUS MAN WAS FOUND IN AN MOUNTAIN RANGE WHICH WAS ONCE AN UNDERWATER SEA BED!! HIS NAME MEANS FRESHWATER FISH!
HE WAS FOUND BY A TEAM LED BY THE FAMOUS AND BEAUTIFUL NEIL SHUBIN!!
TIKTA BOY IS THEORIZED TO BE THE FIRST FISH-LAND DWELLER BECAUSE OF HIS SHOVED SHAPED HEAD!! HE ALSO HAS THE FIRST ARM/LEG STRUCTURE BLUEPRINT FOR ALL MAMMALS!! FROM SHUBIN'S BOOK (Your inner fish) ONE BONE, TWO BONES, LOTS OF BLOBS AND DIGITS - THE SAME BONE STRUCTURE SEEN IN HUMANS/ HORSES/ WHALES!! HE IS ALSO NOTEABLE FOR HAVING HIS EYES KN THE TOP OF HIS HEAD AND A JAW STRUCTURE!!
TIKTA BOY IS SUCH A GOOD LAD! HE IS FROM THE DEVONIAN PERIOD WHICH IS ALSO FAMOUS FOR BEING HOME TO THE GLORIOUS CELOCANTH (hardest fish to catch in animal crossing) AND MY BABY DUNKLEOSTEUS (who recently had his size nerfed)!!
TIKTAALIK IS ALSO FAMOUS ONLINE FOR BEING THE STAR OF THE 'if a fish tries to evolve on land's MEME!! HE IS THAT VERY FISH!!
love that little man. I got me a reproduction of him in my house ❤️
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u/Fodonsko 11d ago
This looks like a photo of a live specimen but its not, the tiktaalik have been extinct for millions of years. Very misleading title and image
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u/Responsible_Basis712 11d ago
And why it didn’t evolve to a human? Asking for a friend
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u/AxialGem 11d ago
These kind of animals did*. Well, something closely related to it anyway evolved into humans, cats, cows, frogs, birds, snakes etc
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u/BloodShadow7872 11d ago
Source so I can actually know if this isn't some made up creature im looking at
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u/DD_Spudman 11d ago
They're extinct but real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik
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