By Eric Sorensen,WSU NewsPULLMAN, Wash.- As weird animals go, and the mangrove killifish is in a class of its own.
It flourishes in both freshwater and water with twice as much salt as the ocean. It can live up to two months on land,breathing through its skin, before returning to the water with a series of spectacular 180-degree flips.
And it is one of only two vertebrates — the other is a close relative — that fertilizes itself.
This final fraction intrigues scientists like Luana Lins, or a postdoctoral researcher in the Washington State University ... » More ...
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