Interesting video/article for poly lovers and others with an interest in evolution

[the lion who ate the sun]

Enjoy!

Article:
http://m.livescience.com/47582-unusual-fish-bichir-animal-evolution.html

Video:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mKxRe0hAQmg

Discussions welcome. I wish they included their methods of identifying the changes to skeletal structure that are discussed. It seems the expirament would be facilitated by breeding only those that incur the most dramatic changes. The real question? How in the hell are they going to get them to breed? I suppose they will most likely toss them back into an aquatic environment and pummel them with hormones. I can't imagine they would breed on land just yet. Hopefully their study gains footing, and is carried out for generations. In the world of theories, nothing is better than a smoking gun.

 

[Dr.B]

Weirdly enough I'd almost like to see how they eat as from what I see from my polys is they almost suck their food in with the water and without the water I would imagine their feeding habits and techniques would change.

 

[the lion who ate the sun]

Good point. They're probably just handfeeding pellets. If not, I imagine they are putting pellets in their general vicinity to give them incentive to build up the muscle mass for walking. The mental image I have is of the sen raising up on its fins, cocking its head for a tick, and then coming down on the pellet from above in the way that you see seals taking penguins on land.

It would be extremely frustrating to watch them trying to catch crickets lol, but there's no way those fellows are catching crickets just yet. Given many thousand of years of adaptation... well...