'A seal is more closely related to a cat than a walrus'

[Taro Toporific]

Dr. Masaki Miya of Chiba Natural History Museum in Japan has led a team of Oxford University scientists using DNA evidence to conclude that the deep sea Black Swallower is really a kissing cousin to the Bluefin Tuna, which like say that a, "seal is more closely related to a cat than it is to a walrus." WTF?!

Who do you fin you are? Tuna’s odd family tree
University of Oxford, 2013 Nov. 30, Press Release via thealmagest.com
Some of the strangest fish in the sea are closely related to dinner table favourites the tunas and mackerels, an international team including Oxford University scientists has found.
Deep sea fish such as the black swallower, with an extendable stomach that enables it to eat fish larger than itself... are close cousins to mackerels and tuna despite having completely different body shapes and lifestyles.
The team, led by Dr Masaki Miya at Chiba Natural History Museum in Japan, suggests that this extended family of fishes might owe its success today to the devastating extinction that marked the demise of dinosaurs and many other creatures 66 million years ago...
...‘Discovering that such radically different fish species are related is a bit like finding that a seal is more closely related to a cat than it is to a walrus!’ said Dr Matt Friedman of Oxford University’s Department of Earth Sciences, a co-author...more...

Black Swallower

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vs Bluefin Tuna

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[matsuki]

I've met some black swallowers in Roppongi but I never asked any of their men if they act like tuna

[Coligny]

Dr. Masaki Miya of Chiba Natural History Museum in Japan has led a team of Oxford University scientists using DNA evidence to conclude that the deep sea Black Swallower is really a kissing cousin to the Bluefin Tuna, which like say that a, "seal is more closely related to a cat than it is to a walrus." WTF?!

Trollbait... i wun't gonna bite...

BTW... Sooooo many YoMama jokes begging to be made...

[IparryU]

Dr. Masaki Miya of Chiba Natural History Museum in Japan has led a team of Oxford University scientists using DNA evidence to conclude that the deep sea Black Swallower is really a kissing cousin to the Bluefin Tuna, which like say that a, "seal is more closely related to a cat than it is to a walrus." WTF?!

Trollbait... i wun't gonna bite...

BTW... Sooooo many YoMama jokes begging to be made...

Don't go adopting seals an feeding them mcydz chicken nuggets now.

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[gaijinpunch]

I've met some black swallowers in Roppongi but I never asked any of their men if they act like tuna

I'm too busy trying to avoid them taking me to strip clubs and rip off bars.

[IparryU]

I've met some black swallowers in Roppongi but I never asked any of their men if they act like tuna

I'm too busy trying to avoid them taking me to strip clubs and rip off bars.

That's why you need to go there with a Roppongi rat... People don't fuck with you (as much).

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[Samurai_Jerk]

I've met some black swallowers in Roppongi but I never asked any of their men if they act like tuna

I'm too busy trying to avoid them taking me to strip clubs and rip off bars.

Wait. Choko gets head from those Nigerian dudes?

[matsuki]

I've met some black swallowers in Roppongi but I never asked any of their men if they act like tuna

I'm too busy trying to avoid them taking me to strip clubs and rip off bars.

Wait. Choko gets head from those Nigerian dudes?

Black swallowers...as in gaijin hunting lemurs...and I said met, not got head from.

[Coligny]

Time for a ebay sale of your lemurs phone book...