BOSTON — Evolution has stuck Hawaiian fish called stream gobies between a rock and a scary
place.
CLIMBING FISH | One of Hawaii’s gobies, barely half as long as a thumb, slowly creeps up a clear plate in the lab. Despite such slow progress,
the species climbs waterfalls several hundred feet high in the wild by
gripping rocks with its mouth and a tiny sucker.
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