>>16149555
>a fish needs to grow legs
This probably came before the ability to actually walk on land, like how Australian lungfish have very strong leg-like fins they can walk on even though they live in water. Legs probably just increased in strength as they became progressively more terrestrial, they didn’t go from fins to strong legs immediately. Even the first amphibians had pretty weak legs and wouldn’t have been walking around much
>needs to be able to breathe
Breathing air is actually pretty common in fish. Arapaima, catfish, lungfish, electric eels, etc all do, basically anything that often finds itself in low oxygen water like stagnant ponds does. If you’re a fish on its way to living on land you’re probably living in shitty low oxygen puddles and not clean flowing rivers
>needs to be able to lay eggs and have its offspring all go onto the surface
Fish weren’t capable of this and never have been, not even amphibians are. This only came much later with reptiles that descended from amphibians who were already living on land as a way for them to sever their reliance on bodies of water to reproduce
>withstand the suns heat and radiation
Also came way after fish. Amphibians only kind of got there but still need to stay wet, this is more of a reptile thing again
>why would they choose to go on the surface if jack shit was up there?
There was lots of bugs to eat and no competition
>>16149563
It would still be getting pruned if it weren’t for modern medicine. If your baby got stuck in the middle ages it’s likely you would die

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