Post #2698919
2026-05-15 00:17 UTC
The iguana and the human! Iguanas, humans and tokay geckos are all amniotes, and the common toad isn't. The last common ancestor of the gecko and the toad is the same animal as the last common ancestor of the human (or the iguana) and the toad.
(It's sort of silly that herpetology covers "the study of reptiles and amphibians"; that combination makes precisely as much sense biologically as "the study of mammals and amphibians".)
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@munificent@mastodon.social 2026-05-15 01:32
@datarama@hachyderm.io it makes sense in that there is a high correlation that if you like reptiles, you probably like amphibians, and vice versa. Scientific fields are organized according to human interest more than anything else.