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African Catfish Hunts On Land

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-just-creepy dept.

Dave Knott writes "The journal Nature will be publishing a report on an African catfish that hunts its prey on land. The fish wriggles out of the swamps to catch land-based prey. From the article: 'The eel catfish, Channallabes apus, catches unsuspecting victims by arching upwards and descending upon prey, trapping an insect against the ground before sucking it up. The same trick may have been used by the very first vertebrates to venture onto land, the researchers speculate.' There is a video of the fish in action."

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  1. Another Nail by RedHatLinux · · Score: 0, Troll

    in the coffin of intelligent design. Jesus/Allah/Budda (I love you all) this idiocy dies here.

  2. Re:it was sarcasm by sumdumass · · Score: 0, Troll
    Then why is the the thoery of evolution being used incresasingly more to say god doesn't exist and creation couldn't possible be true?

    I think either someoen doesn't understand this stuff or someone doesn't understand this stuff. Either way, it apears that evolution has become just as much of a religion as any other religion is. It has all the facets of regular religions, lets list them
    • Some people who claim to understand it still get it wrong
    • it has so many variations that people constantly confuse exactly what they are supposed to belive
    • People use it to disprove other religions or claim that other religions are wrong
    • People draw conclusions or faith based on stuff they don't know to be true.
    • Even when histroy shows it to be the most likley scenario or steps of events, it is still a guess to come to the same conclusions.
    • If you wait long enough, someoen will come out with a new and improved version starting another cycle in all of the above.


    I guess there are som many obvious simularities you could substitute about any religion/scientic theory into any one of those statments and have it still be true. Maybe evolution has become a religion and we should all start whoreshiping the god of testtubes too.

    And yes "faith" can mean complete confidence in a person or plan, or loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person as much as it means believing in a god.