A worker of the Malaysian Fisheries Development Board (LKIM) in Batu Maung, Penang, discovered this strange auqatic biped upon contemplating making lunch. The only thing that saved it from the soup pot was the Chinese belief that eating fish with unusual features could bring disaster or ill luck. It was later thrown back into the waters from whence it came, bogling the minds of local scientists who believe it must have swam into Malaysian waters from either North Sulawesi in Indonesia, or South Africa.
Who would have thunk it. Sharks are scary as it, the last thing they need is to learn how to run too....
In other new species news, the clouded leopard of Borneo and Sumatra has been discovered to be a seperate species from its cousins in mainland Southeast Asia.
Sometimes growing to the size of a small panther, the clouded leopard is the biggest predator in Borneo, equipped with the longest canine teeth, relative to body size, of any cat.
Its nice to know we are still evoloving, new islands springing up, fish with feet, and freshly discovered differentiations in species. So exciting! I hope they find one of those flying fish with feet, THAT would be the coolest animal ever made.
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