Zagorath

Ditto

They might have actually somehow managed to come up with worse logos than Google uses. I assume the top one is an email app, the bottom left is a file manager, and bottom centre is a password manager? But I'm less than certain about those, and everything else is a complete mystery.

I'mma go with "yes", it's racist. But like, such a mild (pun intended) form of racism that the only appropriate response is a polite chuckle and shrug.

ants...having no stinging capacity

But that's like...one of the defining features that a 6-year-old could tell you about them?

Fish could be defined as the most recent common ancestor of tuna and herring, and all of its descendants. That would exclude sharks and lungfish, but would include most other groups that we unambiguously recognise as fish, while excluding tetrapods.

Yup. Birds are reptiles! If you want to define a monophyletic clade that includes crocodiles and lizards, there is no way to do that without also including birds. To define a clade, you take the evolutionary tree and make a "cut" somewhere on it. Everything below that cut is part of the same clade, you can't selectively remove some branches but not others, unless it's by changing where you make your single cut.

So in this diagram:

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The green circle notwithstanding, you would usually define reptile as a cut at the "C" on the diagram. You could put the cut at Lepidosauria, but that would mean crocodiles and turtles are no longer considered reptiles either.

A more zoomed-in look would show that after crocodiles and birds branched apart, you also get another branch where pterosaurs branch away from dinosaurs, and that birds are one of many branches and subbranches of dinosaur.

uh, slugs are bugs

I'mma be honest, I would not instinctively agree with this.

Sure, but we're having this conversation in 2025, after phylogenetic classification has long since taken over as the way we describe the relations between species.

Birds are unambiguously reptiles.

Mammals are not reptiles, but are the most closely-related animals to them.

as far apart as you are from a reptile

That would mean...not very. Reptiles are an extremely broad and diverse group, containing everything from penguins and crocodiles to tuataras and pythons. Mammals are the most closely-related extant clade that is generally not considered "reptile", to reptiles.

Arachnids, on the other hand, are more distantly related to insects. Crustaceans form their closest relatives, followed by myriapods (centipedes & millipedes). Only then do arachnids appear.