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#itbegins
Originally shared by Carl Zimmer
Today in the Times, I write about one very weird fish. It lives in a single cave system in Thailand. It's blind. And it walks up waterfall with a skeleton a lot like ours. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/science/researchers-find-fish-that-walks-the-way-land-vertebrates-do.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/science/researchers-find-fish-that-walks-the-way-land-vertebrates-do.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
Originally shared by Carl Zimmer
Today in the Times, I write about one very weird fish. It lives in a single cave system in Thailand. It's blind. And it walks up waterfall with a skeleton a lot like ours. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/science/researchers-find-fish-that-walks-the-way-land-vertebrates-do.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/science/researchers-find-fish-that-walks-the-way-land-vertebrates-do.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
Cool as hell but also must stress that evo biologists have known for a long time that vertebrate legs evolved in fully aquatic circumstances. There was never a fish that squirmed up on land, looked around, and evolved legs "because it needed them."
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