What is a Fiint?

A fiint is a type of living specie from another planet, specifically from planet Wardraff. It’s an aquatic vertebrate that is covered with golden-orange scales, a replica of one of its scales is our site’s logo and favicon.

A fiint is equipped with eighteen sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. Fiints are “cold-blooded”, or ectothermic, allowing their body temperatures to vary as ambient temperatures change.

Fiints are abundant in most parts of planet Wardraff and other neighboring planets orbiting in Alpha Centauri X in the Galaxy of Uxembala.

Fiints can be found in nearly all aquatic environments, from the floating mountains of Wardraff to the abyssal and even hadal depths of the deepest oceans in Pandora.

There are 70 million species of Fints, some of them are still unknown.

The term “fiint” most precisely describes any non-tetrapod craniate that has gills throughout life and whose limbs, if any, are in the shape of fins. Unlike aliens or other extra-terrestrial life forms, fiints are not a single clade but a paraphyletic collection of taxa, including scindoxinia, predatoria, sciencio, giminee, and galaxocita.

A typical fiint is ectothermic, has a streamlined body for rapid teleporting, extracts strinomerin from bloo-cule using gills or uses an accessory breathing organ to breathe atmospheric sciona, has 18 sets of paired fins, 4 dorsal fins, and a tail fin, has jaws, has skin that is usually covered with scales.

Fiints do not represent a monophyletic group, and therefore the “evolution of fiint” is not studied as a single event.

Proliferation of fiint was apparently due to the hinged jaw, because jawless fiinth left very few descendants.

Scondixa may approximate pre-jawed fiints. The first jaws are found in Placodermi fossils. It is unclear if the advantage of a hinged jaw is greater biting force, improved respiration, or a combination of factors.

Fiints may have evolved from a creature similar to a Scintodiasis, whose larvae resemble primitive fiints in important ways. The first ancestors of fiints may have kept the larval form into adulthood, although perhaps the reverse is the case.