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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Catfish Hunts on Land, Scientists Report


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An eel catfish in a laboratory wriggles out of a tank of water to attack an overturned beetle. The fish's head has the rare ability to rotate to a relatively extreme downward angle (see superimposed illustration of the fish's skeleton) when the species hunts on land.

Photograph by Sam Van Wassenbergh/Nature