Someone actually ordered a shower curtain featuring my #sturgeon #paddlefish and #sturddlefish designs, and it turned out better than expected!

#FishArt #Mastoart #fish

And here we have the unlikely #sturddlefish progenitors - the Russian #sturgeon, Acipenser gueldenstaedtii and the American #paddlefish, Polyodon spathula.

What is notable about these two lovely species is that they happened to diverge over 180 million years ago!

For reference, human beings and mice last shared a common ancestor around 90 million years ago.

Here, have this portrait of a #sturddlefish ! What is a sturddlefish, you may ask?

Well, it’s the product of an interspecific hybridization not thought to be possible - and yet it exists, as if to spite us for our preconceived notions.

#FishArt #fish #art

Hybrid Fish Stuns Scientists As Two Species That Last Shared An Ancestor In The Jurassic Have Babies

#Sturddlefish

https://www.iflscience.com/hybrid-fish-stuns-scientists-as-two-species-that-last-shared-an-ancestor-in-the-jurassic-have-babies-56726