How To Use Mudskipper In A Sentence
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More cryptic but equally fascinating are the mudskippers, a gobioid fish that climbs out of the water into mudflats and even climbs trees.
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To see above and below the water, mudskippers pop their movable eyes out of the water and move them up and down like a submarine periscope.
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He cites the walking catfish, climbing perch, and mudskippers as other examples.
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Her mouth opened and closed like a mudskipper as she bleated confusedly, Lord Mountrachet?
The Forgotten Garden
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A few, like the walking catfish and the mudskipper, are able to crawl about on land, to find food or new habitats.
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If you’re lucky, you may see a fish called the mudskipper climbing on the roots, using its tail and fins as a makeshift set of legs.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
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Their game is mud; skipping and jumping across the shore at low tide, mudskippers give new meaning to the phrase ‘fish out of water.’
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But if he's a fish out of water, then Baker is something of a mudskipper, a fish that also walks on land.
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But in reading this account, weren’t you struck by how cavalierly the news agency threw out the term mudskipper?
M. Skipper, Plaintiff » Japundit Blog
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A better example than the mudskipper would be the coelacanths, or lobe-fin fish which, along with lungfish, diverged about the same time as tetrapods (as supported by genetic evidence).
A Disclaimer for Behe?
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But mudskippers are still fish, and they remain tied to the water - which, because of their knack for burrowing, is never far away.
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So to me, mudskippers - among the very few fish that make daily transitions from water to land - are particularly astounding.
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The mudskipper is an amphibious fish that has the ability to locomote on land.
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Hey Henry, is what a mudskipper walks on a fin or a foot?
Evolution Weekend -- 2010 - The Panda's Thumb
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Continents collide in the new £100,000 attraction, where other tanks feature a variety of creatures from South America, including frogs, archerfish, mudskippers and piranha.
EDP24 News
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Before climbing out onto land, mudskippers fill their over-sized gill chambers with water, creating an oxygen tank that allows them to breathe out of water.
