This 50-million-year-old fossil, held by a museum in Japan, shows 259 fish swimming in a school —
one of the earliest known examples of coordinated group behavior ever. (Mizumoto et al./Proceedings
of the Royal Society B)
Live as one, die as one.
It takes a village.
So, what were those two that were swimming in the opposite direction up to?
50-million-year-old school of baby fish ping!
I see some writing there.
Something about a dam, and a meadow, and an itty bitty pool.
Yeah, the mama fish is saying to the baby fish “Swim if you can!”
Must have been a government school. They’re dangerous to babies.
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As the weather turns hot, the ponds, many of them, dry up.
The last bit of water left before the pond completely goes dry looks just like that fossil arrangement.
Seen it dozens of time.
These fish were likely in such a condition, towards the edge of some water, that became isolated from the main body,then closer and closer together in the evaporating water.
They may have been in a school originally, or just as likely scattered about, but brought close as the volume of water they were in diminished.
Who added “junk science” to the keywords?
Damned Global warming/cooling/whatever.
Just to put the 50 million years ago time frame into perspective, the Himalaya mountains hadn't yet formed.
BTW,if you look up at the land mass illustration above, just over to the right of where it says, Indian Ocean, there's a rain forest in Malaysia that has been there for 130 million years....it just sat there as India 'scooted' by.
A 130 Million Year-old rainforest in Malaysia, and it's not in Borneo
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