Tagged: flying fish

Recent Discoveries about the Evolution of Flying Fish

November 20, 2012 at 12:28 am

For years scientists have known the flying fish to be the one of the earliest known examples of gliding on water by verterbrates,  However, recent discoveries by scientists and researchers in China now suggest that there is an earlier flying fish, or Potanichthys xingyiensis, that is the first known of its kind.

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Fishy Flying

September 30, 2012 at 8:53 pm

Normally you don’t see flying and fish in the same phrase. How can an animal that spends all of its time in the water have the ability to fly? There are even species of birds that don’t have the gift of flight (sorry, penguins), so how can fish fly? In fact, scientists have discovered over […]

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