Thursday, May 2, 2013

Air-breathing snakehead fish has N.Y. environmental officials on alert

The northern snakehead is an invasive predator fish that can perform all kinds of non-fish-like feats -- like breathing only air for up to four days and even using its fins to crawl across land to get to a body of water.

And this weekend, environmental officials in New York will be checking to see if any of these super-fish are lurking in Harlem Meer, a man-made lake in Central Park.  http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-snakehead-fish-central-park-20130430,0,3373090.story

Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Times -Science Now posted by Deborah Netburn

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