Posted on 07/03/2003 9:37:36 PM PDT by StupidQuestions
Thu July 3, 2003 01:59 PM ET
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Scientists in Brazil's Amazon say they have discovered a new fish, something that has not happened for more than a century, and hope to categorize the small eel-like creature by the end of the year. "It's a new species which will require us to create a new genus and a whole new family to accommodate it," Jansen Zuanon, head aquatic biology researcher at Brazil's National Amazon Research Institute, or Inpa, told Reuters on Thursday.
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But how can we be sure of that? It can breathe air or water ... a clearly useful advantage in surviving. Is this proof of Darwin?
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