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TITLE: WRONG TURN AT LUNGFISH...
...just a dream experience. It isn't like anything else. You get your face down in the water and you feel like you're back home again. Maybe I'm related to a fish. I knew a guy who could trace his family tree back to the original lungfish that crawled out on land. Very snobbish fellow, by the way. [Laughter...
...PART, is even more generously endowed?with 1,000 times as much DNA as one E. coli in each of his reproductive cells. Even so, the cells of such relatively primitive animals as salamanders, lungfish and even certain one-celled algae contain far more DNA than man's. Does this mean that such lowly beasts have a richer genetic capacity than man? The Carnegie Institution's Roy Britten and David Kohne, after much painstaking investigation, may have found the answer to that embarrassing question. A few years ago they discovered that in the DNA of higher organisms many genes seem...
...Game Hunter Willy Ley* has returned from safari. Having tracked his prey through the dank undergrowth of large public libraries, he has put his trophies on exhibition in a newly published book, The Lungfish, the Dodo and the Unicorn (Viking...
Into its tanks went sea creatures: sharks, channel bass, tropical lungfish, giant morays, sea turtles, penguins, alligators, crabs. There were monstrous fish, fierce and implacable; sullen, unfriendly fish; fish that clung like parasites to other fish, twisting their sinuous tails in the green water, staring at the shadowy faces beyond the glass. The city gave them 300,000 gallons of water a day-clean salt water from the sea, harbor water, fresh water from the upstate mountain streams...