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NAU Researchers Study Evolutionary Fish Jumping

By admin on October 5, 2011 in Local News

Research sometimes means looking for one thing and finding another. Such was the case when biology professor Alice Gibb and her research team at Northern Arizona University witnessed a small amphibious fish, the mangrove rivulus, jump with apparent skill and purpose out of a small net and back into the water. This was no random […]

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