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To: js1138

Nice feet, where's the lungs? I catch plenty of catfish. they can live a long time out of water. just because a fish flips itself across short bits of land and go into other ponds doesn't mean it's evolving. In fact there is not even a hint of anyhing 'evolving' on that fih, whaich has been observed for hundreds of years.


198 posted on 10/03/2005 12:57:41 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary
Yep, looks like a catfish to me ;)

Or like a crayfish, some live in creeks others dig holes in a pasture, but they are all still crayfish, or other crustaceans some in water some on land, still a crustacean.

Wolf

207 posted on 10/03/2005 1:06:11 PM PDT by RunningWolf (tag line limbo)
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To: Nathan Zachary

Don't like the walking catfish, do a little reading on the northern snakehead.

can live for a few days out of water, can crawl between water sources.

don't know if it has lungs or not, but it is an interesting phenomenon regardless.


244 posted on 10/03/2005 2:00:02 PM PDT by dmz
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To: Nathan Zachary
Nice feet, where's the lungs?

Clarias batrachus (walking catfish) has a primitive sac structure within the gills that allow it to obtain atmospheric oxygen.

475 posted on 10/04/2005 11:27:34 AM PDT by dread78645 (Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
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