Posts Tagged ‘Evolution’

A Dogged Catfish

National Geographic, the fine folks who brought you the Lost Gospel of Judas, now present more evidence for evolution: a catfish that hunts on land! Yup, you heard it right, this catfish jumps out of water and attacks its prey on the ground then it flops back into the water to eat. I heard about it on NPR and they were saying that though this species isn’t old enough to be part of the evolutionary chain it may show how sea creatures transitioned to the land. What cracked me up was that they were saying that the first creatures to move from the sea to hunt gave them an evolutionary advantage. I just kept asking “hunt what?” I mean if they were the first creatures to move to land, what they were hunting?