Did you know that bees are actually fish? They are legally, anyway, because of a court ruling in California that now classifies some bumblebees as fish under state environmental law. Giving them endangered species protections they wouldn’t otherwise have as land invertebrates. Right, while the definition of fish includes invertebrates, a 2020 court ruling interpreted that as only marine invertebrates like anemones or sea urchins. But this overturns that ruling and expands it to some bees, pointing out that the trinity bristle snail, for example, has been considered a fish since 1980. Also adding frogs to the definition of fish, even though they’re amphibians
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Produced by: Cory Ray, Philip DeFranco
Edited by: Julie Goldberg, Maxwell Enright, James Girardier
Art Department: William Crespo
Writing/Research: Chris Tolve, Philip DeFranco
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