Mudskipper fish may offer clues about development of tongue in land animals

Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 10:00 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Universiteit Antwerpen in Belgium has uncovered the mechanism by which mudskippers, a type of fish that feed on land, obtains its food. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B the team describes how they filmed the fish using a variety of techniques to determine how it caught and swallowed prey.

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