Please don’t use this as an excuse to miss this article.

The lede isn’t even slightly buried (“lox” is the 7th word of the article), it’s just used to present the main topic, i.e. Proto-Indo-Europeans.

It’s not a click saved, it’s a click lost if you don’t already know of the Kurgan Hypothesis.

to this day "lax/lachs/laks" still means salmon in most germanic languages.

Thank you for saving us a click.