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Evolution is alive and well...

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 6:10 pm
by _Drifting
Mark Sawyer, 53, said he was fishing for carp when he hooked the odd-looking specimen, which he initially thought was a common brown goldfish.
But on closer inspection he found it appeared to have the head of a roach, the body and tail of a brown goldfish and the rear fin of a bream.
Mr Sawyer, who works as the tackle editor for trade magazine the Angling Times, photographed it before throwing it back into Magpie Lake in Cambridge.
He said: "I have shown the picture to a number of marine boffins who say it is definitely the result of mixed parentage.
"I have caught thousands and thousands of fish but have never seen anything like it before. It is a proper oddity.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... -fish.html

Re: Evolution is alive and well...

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 9:10 pm
by _Quasimodo
Brings to mind the jackalope. Well known in western folklore.

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Re: Evolution is alive and well...

Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 2:39 am
by _son of Ishmael
Quasimodo wrote:Brings to mind the jackalope. Well known in western folklore.

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Yep, they are some good eaten too

Re: Evolution is alive and well...

Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 3:32 am
by _Nightlion
By roach it is meant some sort of gold fish variety and not a cockroach. What a relief.

Re: Evolution is alive and well...

Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 6:00 am
by _moksha
I understand Mitt's stance on issues is constantly evolving to keep pace with the environment. That shows great adaptation.