Re: NANFA-- for those of us who couldn't attend

Joshua L Wiegert (jlw_at_dune.net)
Sat, 7 Jun 2003 08:47:05 -0600 (MDT)

I doubt fish would be universal.... They're hardly universal here...!
Even if life began in the same way, in the sea and all, think of the many
directions it might have gone.... If you look back at the cretacious
extinction (about 250 MYA, the largest extinction known) you'll see there
are many, many now exctinct branches of life. Its perfetly feasable that
any of these may have evolved to take over the seas, rather than the ones
that eventually gave rise to chordates and fish. That's assuming that
life started in the same way, or didn't diverge from the same path far
earlier.

JW.

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On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Mysteryman wrote:


> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 09:20:02 -0700
> From: Mysteryman <bestfish_at_alaweb.com>
> Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- for those of us who couldn't attend
> 
> Hey, maybe an alien spaceship landed, and the aliens said they wanted to
> exchange some of their native fish for some of ours.
> 
> Hey... do you guys think that fish are pretty much universal?
> It seems to me that any planet with liquid water & life on it should
> probably have something very much like fish.
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