Fish Walks, Climbs Waterfalls Like a Salamander

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Fish Walks, Climbs Waterfalls Like a Salamander : DNews

A species of cavefish in Thailand has been documented walking and climbing waterfalls in a manner similar to four-footed creatures such as salamanders, in a find researchers call “huge” in evolutionary terms. In a new study published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) scientists describe the behavior in the blind, walking cavefish Cryptotora thamicola.
 
Evolution on the hoof.

As it were.

Actually, that's not the first 'walking fish'.
 

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