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Back in my days ducks were just fish with extra wings and legs
Also; Beavers
Also also; Crocodiles/Alligators
Also also also: Capybaras
Either that or he's a follower of Hank Green: https://youtu.be/-C3lR3pczjo (plus a few more of his recent videos)
Please narrow it down, how many extra wings and legs?
Does that bring the total to 12?
no. five.
5 legs would be some weird Cambrian Explosion experiment. They got buck wild back then!
Is 5 legs duck asymmetrical, like one side is heavier than another and needs one extra leg there? or all 5 legs are along a central symmetry plane of a 5 legs duck?
Biblically accurate duck
I mean... aren't all tetrapods just fish with time added?
Land creatures = fish + time
Whales, fish + even more time.
I mean, for that matter, neither fish or bird technically exist (also, trees). So it doesn't matter. Try feeding birdseed to a penguin and you'll see.