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Three truths

Timed
Branched off about 430 million years ago · the last 10% of life's story
Named
≈32,000 named living species · 1.9% of all named
Weighed
Part of Fish (≈0.7 Gt C), not measured separately.

Eukaryotes · animals

Ray-finned fish

Living · roughly 32,000 described species

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Almost every fish you know, from goldfish to tuna.

Branched off
About 430 million years ago (approximate)
Parent lineage
Bony vertebrates

Classification

  1. First common ancestor (LUCA)
  2. › Archaea
  3. › Asgard archaea
  4. › Heimdall and complex-cell line
  5. › Complex cells (eukaryotes)
  6. › Amorphea
  7. › Opisthokonts
  8. › Holozoa
  9. › Animals
  10. › Parahoxozoa
  11. › Bilaterians
  12. › Deuterostomes
  13. › Chordates
  14. › Vertebrates
  15. › Jawed vertebrates
  16. › Bony vertebrates
  17. › Ray-finned fish

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