#African lungfish look so much like salamanders you’d be forgiven for confusing the two
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Why are lizards and salamanders so similar in shape?
That’s just what peak performance looks like
#it’s also just basically the ancestral shape of the sarcopterygian fishes that we are descended from#African lungfish look so much like salamanders you’d be forgiven for confusing the two#mammals and birds and tortoises and frogs are just heavily modified from this splayed-stance long-tail tetrapod shape#snakes and caecilians are just variation on the theme of ‘how much leg is actually needed for my lifestyle’ where the answer is zero#but remember that salamanders and lizards are really only superficially similar#answers by mark#anon#anonymous
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