Fish Out Of Water

www.bioliogynews.net/archieves/2010/11/08/special_skin_keeps_fish_speices_alive_on_land.html

Patricia Wright, biologist from the university of Guelph, Onterio, has discovered a new cell in killifish. Killifish are small fish, native to mangroves of Central and South America and Florida. This fish fish have a special cell that allows them to live above wayer, in a moist atmosphere, for over two months. The cell is called an ionocytes, these cells are mostly found on the gills of other fish. The ionocyts help the fish keep balance of their salt and water intake.

I think if we use this information we can make a whole new species of fish. Reaserchers could work on fixing the DNA so that the fish could, not just stay on land for two months, but live on land as many other orgainisms do. If fish could learn, or be geneticly enhanced, to live without salt, i think it would be very possible for them to live on land. A world where fish could live in dry land with humans, would be truely interesting.