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Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years (www.livescience.com)

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[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Monophyletically they are, orcas (and people) are far more closely related to bony fish like trout than any of those are to sharks. If trout and shark are both fish then monophyletically so are we and orcas.

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