Scientists Give Homage to Evolution for Killifish Adaptation
There's a family (not species) swimming around mainly in the Americas called killifish — "Why do you want to kill the fish, Cowboy Bob? That's cruel!" No, look closer. One word, three syllables. "Kill" is an old Dutch word for river; I live near the Cats kill s. So, the meaning of killifish is " fish of the brook ". Of course, some killifish can be good eatin', but that's not the subject today. So anyway, when industrialists were using Darwinian-based laissez-faire capitalism and dumping sewage into the water, they commenced to not only pollute, but killed off many critters as well as a passel of fish. Waccamaw killifish image credit: Fritz Rhode / North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources / public domain (Usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) There was a song by the group 38 Special that had the line, "You see it all around you, good lovin' gone bad". Here's another ins