EVOLUTION ,WHERE DID WE COME FROM ? CRABS AND TALKING FISH
‘ Where Dae We Come Fae ? ‘ Which translates tae the Inglis as ‘Where Do We Come From ? ‘ . This is the question being asked by fish populations around the oceans and seas of the world . Or is it ?
Did you know that there is a fish called The Bony-Eared Arsefish ? Aye well ther is.
The bony-eared assfish (Acanthonus armatus) is a bathypelagic species of cusk-eel found in tropical and sub-tropical oceans . This species grows to a length of 37.5 centimetres (14.8 in) SL. It is the only known member of its genus Acanthonus.
Armatus means “armed” in Latin, likely chosen because the fish sports spines off the tip of the nose and the gills. This also perhaps accounts for the “bony-eared” part
Akanthos is Greek for “prickly”, and onus could either mean “hake, a relative of cod or a donkey”.Onus the Greek word for ass
But can Mr Bony Lugs talk ? Probably not as yer Bony-Eared Assfish ther, may have the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of all vertebrates.
And this is the point wher yoose a’ scream ..”Whit is this total eejit oan aboot noo ? A gibberin Arsefish ? Away ! Of course it canny speak ,it’s a feckin fish and fishes canny talk “
And believe me ,a hear yer outrage.
But in reply tae yer ragin selves a say ” Whithhold yer umbrage, agreed Mr or Mrs Ersefish might no be able tae spraff in the Doric, waffle in Weegie or haver Buchan nonsense, but scientists noo hink that fish communicate, as in they make wee fishy sounds that other wee fishes can unerstaun .
In a recent publication entitled Evolutionary Patterns in Sound Production across Fishes ,the conclusion that a shoal of scientifically minded grey matter came tae, wis that fish huv been spraffin away tae themsels since the day they became fish and over the millennia ,fishy talk hus independently evolved at least 33 times . The independently evolved at least 33 times bit ,gets mentioned quite often by yer fishy researchers ,so a wid therefore imagine that this point of informative is quite significant .
Evolutionary Patterns in Sound Production across Fishes
Sound production by fishes has been recognized for millennia .
Fish can acoustically communicate with each other, most often in the context of feeding, aggression or courtship In aggregate, we conclude that our results strongly support the hypothesis that soniferous behavior is ancient, but independently evolved in multiple clades of Actinopterygii, as it is among tetrapods.
“Sound communication is often overlooked within fishes, yet they make up more than half of all living vertebrate species,”
ANDREW BASS
What are the fish talking about?
Pretty much the same things we all talk about — sex and food.
The fish are either trying to attract a mate, defend a food source or territory, or let others know where they are.
AARON N. RICE
Even some of the common names for fish are based on the sounds they make, such as grunts, croakers, hog fish, squeaking catfish, trumpeters, and many more.
The results show that families with soniferous species contain nearly two-thirds of actinopterygian species, including a clade originating circa 155 Ma, and that sound production has independently evolved approximately 33 times within Actinopterygii.
The ‘May-loving spore’
“Txikispora philomaios is a protist (a unicellular eukaryotic organism) that evolved shortly after the division that was undertaken by the common ancestor of animals and fungi, before its multicellularity was developed.
All the world’s animals and fungi come from the same cellular organism that was presumably present in the ocean hundreds of millions of years ago. At some point it began to aggregate and duplicate itself, while its cells specialised to form tissue, and eventually a body, ranging from a microscopic jellyfish to a huge blue whale,” explained the researcher.
Since the genetic rearrangement undergone by parasites often differs from that of their free-living relatives, the study of this parasite and its genome will contribute towards understanding how animal multicellularity developed. “In other words, when and how cells began to communicate with each other, join together, or specialise among themselves, forming increasingly complex organisms.
Look who’s talking now: The fishes!
Widespread sound communication among fish
There’s a whole lot of talking going on beneath the waves. A new study from Cornell University finds that fish are far more likely to communicate with sound than generally thought — and some fish have been doing this for at least 155 million years. These findings were just published in the journal Ichthyology & Herpetology.
The authors looked at a branch of fishes called the ray-finned fishes. These are vertebrates (having a backbone) that comprise 99% of the world’s known species of fishes. They found 175 families that contain two-thirds of fish species that do, or are likely to, communicate with sound. By examining the fish family tree, study authors found that sound was so important, it evolved at least 33 separate times over millions of years.
This introduces sound communication to so many more groups than we ever thought .
Fish do everything.
They breathe air, they fly, they eat anything and everything — at this point, nothing would surprise me about fishes and the sounds that they can make.
Did you know fish chirp, crackle and whoop?! Hear why fish make these surprising sounds as Professor Steve Simpson reveals how technology is uncovering a hidden world of communication on our coral reefs.
So the big big ,big big prize winning question that hus tae be asked efter that astonishing disbelief is .See efter yer fungi and wee fishes learnt tae communicate ,how come they never evolved intae crabs ,or did they ?
Wance again ,at this point ,and quite rightly so, I hear yer a’ready outraged selves howlin ” Everything is evolving intae feckin crabs ? Whit the fuck are you oan aboot noo ya heidcase ? ”
And wance again I shall reply tae yer inflamed astonishment wae the answer of .. “Well many wee beasties seem tae huv at some point evolved intae crabs , thers nae need tae take ma wurd fur it ,the link below , hus pages filled wae incomprehensible gash written in big fuck off wurds .
But whit it disnae say in the reports, but a question I shall ask … ‘Is spraffin an evolutionary requirement fur crabification and are we chatty humans ascending the crabby evolutionary tree tae a predestined pincered point ?’
Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, Which Is Somewhat Disturbing
We knew the long quarantine was making us all crabby, but this is extreme: People now feel fully betrayed by the long history of crabification (technically, “carcinization”) of different species over time.
That means groups of crustaceans have evolved into crabs in five completely different contexts, giving rise to a meme that the long arc of history truly bends toward the crab.
So how does carcinization happen? Well, that part is pretty simple. Animals that live in similar habitats face obstacles that can shuttle them all toward the same evolutionary advantages.
Britannica cites the marsupials as a key example, where despite having one critical difference from their “placental” counterparts in other parts of the world, the marsupials often correspond very closely to these other animals.
Animals can evolve separately but end up evolving toward other species, too, or even spontaneously evolve the same characteristics in totally separate groups.
Birds and bats can both fly using mechanical wings.
Birds and mammals are both warmblooded, but both evolved from groups that were not.
New DNA Technology Is Shaking Up The Branches of The Evolutionary Tree
It may appear that evolution endlessly invents new solutions, almost without limits. But it has fewer tricks up its sleeve than you might think.
Animals can look amazingly alike because they have evolved to do a similar job or live in a similar way. Birds, bats and the extinct pterosaurs have, or had, bony wings for flying, but their ancestors all had front legs for walking on the ground instead.
Similar wing shapes and muscles evolved in different groups because the physics of generating thrust and lift in air are always the same. It is much the same with eyes, which may have evolved 40 times in animals, and with only a few basic “designs”.
Our eyes are similar to squid’s eyes, with a crystalline lens, iris, retina, and visual pigments. Squid are more closely related to snails, slugs, and clams than us. But many of their mollusk relatives have only the simplest of eyes.
Aye ,so ther you go ,fishes can talk and crabs ur at the very tap of the evolutionary tree , this knowledgeable evidence kind of makes Mammaliaformes especially us Homo sapiens look rether primitive in the evolutionary scale of hings ,feck we backwards still only huv two legs , two erms and nae pincers ,which is shite if ye wa’nt tae get ahead in this world . Dae crabs huv heids by the way ?
Links :-
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220128100733.htm
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jeu.12875
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220127172640.htm
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a34389129/crab-evolution-carcinization/
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