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Dolphins are fish, they are Sarcopterygii, lobe finned fish. All lobe finned fish are more closely related to each other than they are to ray finned fish like trout.
~~No, wtf~~
Edit: misunderstood kerrigan
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin
Can't evolve out of a clade. Dolphins, and all tetrapods, are lobe finned fish, and bony fish, and jawed fish, and chordates respectively. There is no clade that includes trout and sharks that does not include dolphins.
It's literally the first sentence of the Wikipedia article on Dolphins.
They're mammals not fish.
Mammals are tetrapods yes, which fall under lobe finned fish.
Ok, now I understand what you say, so for friday fish facts you can just add mammal facts as well, so the post is still wrong, because cephalopods are not fish, but me on the beach is a fish.
Fun friday fish fact about me, a human fish: if you swim in the sea with a long beard, there is a big chance that small dead fishes will get tangled in your beard. Wash your beard after swimming in the sea as the smell of these small dead fishes will become unbearable later.
Now you're getting it, human fish fact would be far more technically correct than a cephalopod being there. But fish doesn't have to be a scientific term, just like tomato and cucumber can culinarily be vegetables, so too can a cephalopod be a fish. Just not scientifically. https://youtu.be/hVjSJV0WoDQ scishow did a shorter video on the topic too.
Last comment on this because I can't logic someone out of a position they didn't logic themselves into.
Taxonomy is a description of how we (scientists that know way more than me) believe various species are related over millions of years that life on Earth has existed. Your supposition is incorrect and I've given up on this response.
My position is literally that of modern evolutionary biology. Fish is not really an accepted scientific term anymore because it doesn't really mean much. Coelacanths are more closely related to humans than they are to trout, which are more closely related to you and me than they are to sharks. Dolphins, obviously being mammals are much more closely related to us like you said than any of those, but you still can't not classify them as fish. Clint's Reptiles is a great youtube channel made by an evolutionary biologist that does some good crash courses on the modern science if you want to understand it better.