Watching fish swim
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:00
in Biology & Nature
As fish go, the lamprey has to be one of the most repulsive. Its eel-like body culminates in a tooth-encrusted sucker mouth straight out of a sci-fi horror film. Yet it turns out the lamprey, the most primitive of vertebrates, can do a pretty neat trick: bounce back from paralysis.