Friday, June 13, 2008

Laos - land of the gar fish


I met this fish in a floating restaurant in Laos. Just north of Vienchang, there are floating restaurants on one of the tributaries of the Mekong river.

The fish actually looks like a dwarf crocodile......with an extended mouth. it must be a very ancient fish that did not eveolved into a crocodile????? Does not make sense.....neither do evolution makes sense to me...

1 comment:

Fish said...

If I'm not mistaken, this type of fish is called the "living fossil".