On Apr 14, 4:25 pm, Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/>
wrote:
> help bot wrote:
> > PS: I know that whales are not fish. Duh! Of
> >course, a whale is a marsupial, or maybe an
> >insect.
>
> Whales are Monotremes (from the Greek Monos (single)
> + Trema (hole), referring to the blowhole.
>
> I hope this helps...
Well, of course two minutes on Wikipedia will tell
you what somebody has decided to classify them
as. More interesting to me would be a complete
lineage, as in bacterium, sea-worm, fish, lungfish,
frog, big-frog, giant-frog, dinosaur, little-dinosaur,
marsupial, dog, bear, big fat bear, walrus, blow-
holed walrus, narwhal, whale, whale-oil lamp,
utter extinction (thanks a lot, human s***).
Now that we have DNA and computers, I think
the "experts" ought to go back and re-think their
original classifications. Why settle for comparing
the shapes of teeth?
Also, have you thought about why those Greeks
felt a need to distinguish between single blow-
holed creatures and those with multiple blow-
holes? Just hunt down and kill the mutants, and
call what's left "whoosh-tremes".
-- help bot
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