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Back in the 70’s my brother came to visit. He walked down to the river and caught a big catfish. About 3 feet long. That thing would just not die. I remember giving him a pair of those big pruning hooks to cut the head off. We planned on eating the fish. Once cut off, the head kept walking along the sidewalk for several minutes. Brother turned white as a sheet.

Suspected that this was a fish story, but

The Invasive Catfish That Walks Across Parking Lots The walking catfish, as its name suggests, can move quite well on land. It can cover up to 1.2 kilometers and can survive up to 18 hours out of water. And this tends to freak out some people. Will anyone believe this? Noah Bressman will. He knows that catfish walking across parking lots isn’t out of the realm of science fiction. It’s happening in Florida. Bressman, currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Chapman University, researches amphibious fish – fish that can move on land. https://blog.nature.org/2020/07/23/the-invasive-catfish-that-walks-across-parking-lots/