Thursday, December 22, 2005

Now Here's a Strange One



A trout with two mouths caught in a Nebraska lake. I'll leave all the bad puns to you guys.

1 comment:

Mary Strachan Scriver said...

I just finished reading "Nature Via Nurture" by Matt Ridley. It has completely exploded much of my thinking about genetics -- not in the sense of destroying what I knew but in the sense of enlightening me massively and in a hurry. He spends time explaining the genes that are on and off switches and how sensitive they are to time and environment. Clearly there was something preventing the "off" switch from doing it's job after one mouth was finished. Our emotions, the stuff in the water, all sorts of surprising stuff can mess things up without even a mutation in the DNA genes. It's interesting that the fish can have lived so long. One would think it would die right out of the egg.