Lungfish Essays

THE AFRICAN LUNGFISH Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the African Lungfish and its characteristics. Central Idea: The characteristics of the African Lungfish can be quite misunderstood due to its name. There are many factors that make this type fish different from many that are known. INTRODUCTION I. Imagine sitting in a restaurant starving and you overhear a conversation between a group of biology travelers discussing an African Lungfish. The hunger that was once so known just

One of the biggest debate that has been going on for a century and a half is the debate on if evolution is true or not. It has caused two sides to go against each other, and hasn’t been resolved. The two main sides are the creationists, and the evolutionists . The debate was started by one man named Charles Darwin, who claimed a new theory that goes against multiple religious beliefs. Creationist believe that god created everything perfect. On the other hand, evolutionists claim that all living

Throughout chapters 8 and 9 of Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin discusses the relationship between humans and other organisms, specifically the connection regarding the sense of smell and vision. Fossils and the geological record are powerful sources of evidence about the past. By extracting DNA from a tissue of varying species, the history of any part of the body, such as smelling, can be deciphered. Similar to fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds, the human’s sense of smell is housed in the

both a fresh-water and salt water aquarium. It is said to be the highest salt water aquarium in Japan. Hakone-en Aquarium displays over 2,000 rare fresh-water fish from 150 species including the so called 'living fossil', protopterus, the African Lungfish. The saltwater section of the Hakone-en Aquarium features a massive tank measuring 17 m wide, 11m front to back and 7 m deep. This tank displays over 20,000 salt-water fish and some penguins. There is also the "Baikal Seal Square" attraction on the

A ‘living fossil’ has been determined as ‘an organism that has remained essentially unchanged from earlier geological times and who’s close relatives are usually extinct’ (Merriam-Webster, 1859). This is suggesting that the Duck-billed Platypus, more commonly known as the Platypus, would still be in its primitive form and have similar characteristics to it ancestors. Anyone looking at the Platypus can identify its abnormalities as it is so distinctively unique in the animal kingdom. Its name on its