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The Congo's freshwater elephant fish, such as the one seen above, use their long snouts to sift through river bottom sediments for food--another example of the Congo as a hotbed of evolution.

The Goliath tiger fish, said to grow up to 150 pounds (68 kilograms), may be able to overcome barriers in the tumultuous and turbid Congo River that smaller fish cannot.

1 posted on 02/13/2009 2:09:52 PM PST by JoeProBono
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Looks like a fresh water ‘Cuda.


2 posted on 02/13/2009 2:12:14 PM PST by wolfcreek (There is no 2 party system only arrogant Pols and their handlers)
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3 posted on 02/13/2009 2:13:16 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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think I’ll pass going swimming there


4 posted on 02/13/2009 2:13:18 PM PST by peace with honor
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I CAN HAS KITTEN?

11 posted on 02/13/2009 2:22:35 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: JoeProBono

I see fish.

I don’t see any “evolution”.

The emperor has no clothes.


14 posted on 02/13/2009 2:25:33 PM PST by fishtank (RINOs: Stuck inside of the GOP like spackle or paste. (We need a cleansing.))
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Fish in different river systems having different adaptations to their environments. The Mekong giant catfish wouldn’t last a week in the Congo!!!


21 posted on 02/13/2009 2:44:32 PM PST by JimSEA
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29 posted on 02/13/2009 2:58:50 PM PST by bigheadfred (FREE EVAN VELA, freeevanvela.com)
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To: JoeProBono

The Congo’s freshwater elephant fish, such as the one seen above, use their long snouts to sift through river bottom sediments for food—another example of the Congo as a hotbed of evolution.

What? How about a hotbed of diversity of species? Why put the word “evolution” into this? It’s a specific species of fish that has survived because it can do something that other fish cannot - sift for food though the river sediment.

Let’s take this simply - how many evolutionary ‘changes’ would be needed from saw the scary tiger fish to the elephant fish? 5? 10? 50? 500? And if just ONE of them doesn’t happen, then the elephant fish - or the tiger fish - doesn’t exist. Which one came first? Neither? What was the common ancestor, then?

EVOLUTION IS A SHAM. Survival of the ‘fittest’, sure, I can understand that. It means survival of the species best suited for the local/natural environment. Evolution? Nah...


33 posted on 02/13/2009 3:06:13 PM PST by Ro_Thunder ("Other than ending SLAVERY, FASCISM, NAZISM and COMMUNISM, war has never solved anything")
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They are sure ugly, but I wonder if they taste good?


34 posted on 02/13/2009 3:13:21 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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Why you lock your doors down on the bayou.

47 posted on 02/13/2009 6:18:58 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Stimulate this Obama!)
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Wow, that one actually *swallowed* a guy...
Monster Fish photo

48 posted on 02/13/2009 6:48:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Sounds fishy to me. Bigger and more savage and that’s ‘evolution’? Where are the hospitals these things have built? If Maslow and Darwin were correct, these things are merely meaner and sadly unactualized... (sniff)


51 posted on 02/13/2009 9:15:50 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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Ping


56 posted on 02/14/2009 9:52:11 AM PST by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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