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The bowfin, aka choupique, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, mudfish, mud pike, and swamp trout, hails from the freshwater rivers, lakes, streams, and swamps of eastern United States, Ontario, and Quebec. Being 1 of only 2 surviving species of the Halecomorphi (a group of fish that first appeared during the Early Triassic, […]

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This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The mudskipper is a type of fish that is part of the fish family known as Periophthalmini, which is in the family Gobiidae (gobies). They are amphibious fish, which means that they can live in the water and on land. When on land they use their pectoral fins to walk […]

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