Saturday, March 14, 2009

Dracula fish discovered in Borneo

Isn’t this just the kind of news headline you like to see.
Eye catching and intriguing. Wow! I thought. How freaky. A fish that is afraid of garlic and crosses, sleeps in a coffin and wears a tiny little black cape….
Well no. Turns out this fish just has little fangs. I’m sorry, no disrespect to the 17mm member of the Cypriniform group of carp like fishes, but having fangs doesn’t make you Dracula. No one looks at a snake and says ‘Hey wow. A Dracula snake.’
Misled by the mainstream media again. And in a stream in the deepest darkest part of Burma a little fish has had his 15 minutes of fame.

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