One of the most pleasant surprises was to find some mudskippers. I have been explaining them to the public in Cosmocaixa Museum for almost the last two years but I never imagined I would see them in the Australian mangroves. Mudskippers show us one of the steps of how the first vertebrates might have come out of the sea to conquer the land. Their muscular fins allowed them to drag themselves from pond to pond in low tide conditions by getting some water in their mouth cheeks to hold their breath.
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