Fish Walks, Climbs Waterfalls Like a Salamander (discovery.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday March 25, 2016 @06:00AM from the climb-like-no-one-is-watching dept.

An anonymous reader links us to an article on Discovery News: 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 press release Brooke E. Flammang, an assistant professor of biological sciences at NJIT, said that the fish has anatomical features previously known only in tetrapods -- four-limbed vertebrates that include amphibians and reptiles. "What these fish do, in complete darkness, is stick to the rock and climb waterfalls, completely underwater."

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Re:I fully expect... by fishscene · 2016-03-25 06:33 · Score: 5, Informative

Here's a FAR better video than whatever was linked in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Someone went into a cave and filmed the fish. What I *liked* about it is it shows it is actually crawling/walking/scaling instead of maybe using its fins as possible spoilers to generate a downward force to keep it on the rock as water flows over it. Maybe someone can post this video instead to the article instead?