Fish out of water are more common than thought
Fish out of water are more common than thought
Date:June 22, 2016
University of New South Wales
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A land-dwelling blenny from Mauritius that leaps around in the splash zone on intertidal rocks
and hides in moist crevices when the tide is low.
Credit: Dr. Georgina Cooke
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Fish have evolved the ability to live on land many times, challenging the perception that this extreme lifestyle shift was likely to have been a rare occurrence in ancient times, new UNSW Australia research shows.
"A fish out of water might seem an extraordinary thing, but in fact it is quite a common phenomenon," says study first author and UNSW evolutionary ecologist Dr Terry Ord. "Amphibious behaviour has evolved repeatedly in a wide diversity of present day fish, and the move onto land does not appear to be as difficult as has been presumed."
In the first study of its kind, Dr Ord and Dr Georgina Cooke looked at the evolutionary relationships of all living fish reported to be active on land. They also examined the environmental factors that might have promoted their emergence from the water.
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The UNSW researchers found that 33 different families of fish have at least one species that demonstrates some terrestrial activity and, in many cases, these behaviours are likely to have evolved independently in the different families.
More:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160622102129.htm
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