r/Weird • u/SpillaMangBang • 3h ago

Red Lipped Bat Fish

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u/Weak-Doughnut5502 2h ago

Nope.  They're part of the anglerfish order.  They're a kind of ray- fined fish. 

We're a kind of lobe-finned fish.  Our closest relatives who never left the water are lung fish and ceolacanths.

We're very distantly related.   This is a case of quasi convergent evolution,  since their fins work very differently to our distant ancestor's.

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u/prairiepog 1h ago

I've caught ceolacanths (in Animal Crossing). That's is so cool.

Maybe this fish will evolve to walking on land in a billion or so years.

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u/early_birdy 1h ago

So we're lobed-not-rayed. How interesting!

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u/MariaKeks 1h ago

We're a kind of lobe-finned fish

Speak for yourself.

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u/thisisnottherapy 1h ago

I think OPs video might be AI. The fish looks close but has a few significant differences. Especially those fins protruding outward in the video and the pattern/color. And no other batfish looks like that in the video either.