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The Electric Eel is the only known species of freshwater fish that has been known to literally electrocute its prey and enemies. In fact, humans and alligators have been known to succumb to these evolutionary marvels. Electric eels are in fact not eels at all. They are a scaleless freshwater fish. They also need to breathe air every ten
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One of the major underpinnings of biology is that all life shares a common ancestor. If the scientific theory of evolution is true, we should be able to make predictions about what forms led to the variety of forms we see today. As an example, we can predict that between fish fossils and early land tetrapods, that there should be a transitional
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Cymothoa exigua is nightmarishly known as, “the tongue-eating louse”. Many a fisherman have discovered a very unwelcome hitchhiker in the mouth of their snapper catch.
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Anglerfish are found deep in the Antarctic and Atlantic oceans. The females are larger, up to 3.3 feet, whereas the males are only a couple of inches long. In some species, the females have a fleshy growth on their head that glows, and they use it to lure fish close enough for them to grab and swallow. They can eat prey
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