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I think the bird -> dinosaur relationship is more like human -> primate.

IIRC "fish" is kind of a fuzzy term. Like we would colloquially describe our common ancestor with frogs as a fish, but phylogenetically they would be closer to us than to some other "fish." Or something.



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