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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I mean, some of the taxanomic divisions do have common names as well - jawed fish and ray-finned fish might come up in that conversation. And don't forget some of the formal names and roots are Greek as well.

What kind of whale is that? “It’s a whale whale… you know the original whale… the proper whale… the right whale.” There’s actually a paragraph in Moby Dick about this.

Was that the weird chapter that was just a biology lesson, but was also completely wrong?