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sheatfish: see catfish catfish, common name applied to members of the freshwater fish families constituting the suborder Nematognathi. The catfish is related to the sucker and the minnow , and like them has a complex set of bones forming a sensitive hearing apparatus. ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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3) Much of Killers of the Seas is a retelling of horror stories, from a squid carrying off a whale calf to a 12-year-old Mexican boy who was lanced in the stomach by a large ray, to a giant European catfish that ate a seven-year-old child in 1754. Infrared photography has revealed that European catfish can stalk prey by tracking underwater wakes much as hunters on land follow footprints. |
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