Fish flies for 45 seconds !!!what kind of fish is this????/

Swamp Gas

it'd be nice if news outlets that ever publish pieces on 'stuff' would actually provide some goddamned MOTHERFUCKING SIMPLE PIECE OF SHIT FACTS like they're supposed to.....ohhh, something simple like....WTF the goddamned name of the goddamned fucking fish.

not gripin at you op... just sayin it's always like this with any p.o.s. mainstream news outlet.

What a world of wonders we live in! It's amazing to see some of the other creatures that inhabit this planet with us.

Just a guess (Vid didn't work for me), but could it be a Flying Fish?

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[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Pretty cool

Exactly! Would be cool to have one of those suckers mounted on my wall.

I woke up really pissed off this morning too. Good thing I'm not dealing with a lot of people today.

THEY ARE VERY COMMON, NICE TO EAT AND 45 SECONDS IS NOTHING TO THEM.

GL

It's much cooler to watch them fly!

i agree they should then i wouldnt have to ask?? lmao

try it again then wait a minute

A TASTY fish.

You people don't get out much do you? I've know about flying fish since I was six. Maybe they're not as common as they used to be

there not i dont think ,,how would you catch something like this????

Fish turned into a bird. How did it know there was air up there and what's the purpose of it wanting to fly?

GOD DID IT!!!!!

so did i ..... but i had no idea about the world record flying time of those fuckers. and it's CNN??????!!!!!!!!!!!!! they could of provided the simple 5 W's .... basic journalism.

it's sorely lacking on a GRAND scale.

they learned how to fly to keep out of the fricken Japanese nets that dredge the sea clean of all life. In the future, whales and dolphins will learn to fly, too.

lmaoooooo

No matter how many times I see some of these wonders I am always amazed at the sight. Awsome!

Here's another link if cnn doesn't work for you.

[link to www.liveleak.com]

i was too ac pretty cool i never seen them before???!!!

It's so fantastic that if a person doesn't actually see this creature it sounds like something from a fairytale. This fish not only flies but it must "hold its breath" for the time it is out of water. It would be no more amazing to see a bird that can swim under the water and hold its breath for 45 seconds. Penguins can swim under water but they can no longer fly. This fish does both!

Cnn's site doesn't always work w/other combinations of browser/operating systems. Liveleak has a video here:

[link to www.liveleak.com]

Supposedly it's the longest recorded flight, so if you guys see them flying for longer periods of time, tape them, make yourself famous!

I'm guessing they'd dry out pretty quick with the wind if they stay aloft too long, they might not be in good shape when they hit the water again. Still, if Hitchcock would have seen a video like this, the movie might have been about fish, not birds... :)

wow do we have them here in the usa????

dofzins have better hang time than this.i mean dolphins dofzion.

I think its too cold up here for them.

Exocoetidae family, actually. They don't actually fly, but use their large pectoral fins to glide. This helps them escape from predators.

The way they take off is pretty cool. They swim as fast as they can with their pecs folded, jump up out of the water, unfold their pecs, and then use their tail (the lower lobe is the bigger one) to give them the final boost.

The fact that the lower part of the tail provides a lot of force even with the rest of the fish above the water results in a very high thrust-to-drag ratio which allows the fish to get tremendous airborne speeds.

I've seen a lot of flying fish from a boat, but never airborne for more than about ten seconds, and I don't ever remember seeing them thrashing their tail in the water during flight to give them more distance.

Perhaps the fish was afraid of water and couldnt swim lol

More proof of evolution.