#sturddlefish — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sturddlefish, aggregated by home.social.
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Here’s a shower curtain featuring my #sturgeon #paddlefish and #sturddlefish designs as one of my final #artadventcalender posts. My parents ordered this from Redbubble a while back and it’s probably still the only one of its kind.
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Someone actually ordered a shower curtain featuring my #sturgeon #paddlefish and #sturddlefish designs, and it turned out better than expected!
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And here we have the unlikely #sturddlefish progenitors - the Russian #sturgeon, Acipenser gueldenstaedtii and the American #paddlefish, Polyodon spathula.
What is notable about these two lovely species is that they happened to diverge over 180 million years ago!
For reference, human beings and mice last shared a common ancestor around 90 million years ago.