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Wtf are you guys talking about
Polygonal phylogeny
Yes, googling offers nothing, but I'm probably just being goofed on
Try the Polygoogle. The regular non-euclidian google has a history of censorship when it comes to polygonal phylogeny
I didn't even think to recommend Poogle. Thank you!
I still think about this thread on a near daily basis 👍
Polygonal phylogeny
Phylogeny is the "study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms."
Polygons are shapes made of non-intersecting straight lines and named for the number of corners they have (either in Latin or in Greek, or some mix between the two for whatever reason). Three corners is a tri-angle (lit.: three angles), four a quadri-lateral (lit.: four sides), five is penta-gon (lit.: five corners), six a hexa-gon, seven hepta-gon, eight octagon and ao on.
The joke is that they're treating "hex-bear" as an animal in a line of polygonal creatures, and extending that line in both directions with pent- and hept- animals, such as herpetis (presumably some form of reptile or amphibian, given that herpetology concerns itself with the study of those creatures (though ornithology is traditionally considered a separate field despite birds being related to reptiles (which means that chickens are really just the modern descendants of dinosaurs and I think that's awesome))).