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the species that out-numbers your excuses and predates trees by 100 million years
means A cold-blooded aquatic animal with gills and fins, or the act of catching such creatures — and, by extension, to grope around for something (often information you'd rather not give up).
from From Old English 'fisc,' a thoroughly Germanic word with cousins all over the family — Dutch 'vis,' German 'Fisch,' Old Norse 'fiskr' — and a likely deeper relative in Latin 'piscis' (the source of Pisces and 'piscine'). The figurative 'fishing for compliments' sense swam in centuries later, the metaphor of dangling bait and waiting being too good to resist.
- older than trees
- Fish swam 200 million years before forests existed
- climbing skills
- Some catfish scale damp vertical rock walls
- face recognition
- Archerfish can distinguish dozens of human faces
- sleepless sharks
- Many sharks must swim constantly or suffocate
- count em
- Over 34,000 species, more than all other vertebrates combined
great barrier reef — home to over 1,500 fish species in australia
amazon river — contains ~3,000 fish species including piranhas and arapaima
lake baikal — siberian lake with 1,700+ endemic fish species