Mudskippers and gobies... "still coming ashore"


	Mudskippers and gobies... "still coming ashore"

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3-9-2008 10:25 PM

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fish, animals, weird

enbar says:

Mudskippers are fish that can actually crawl out of the water and get around. "Things are still coming ashore," as Loren Eisley said in 1957.

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