Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1912 — Fish Interests Sclentists. [ARTICLE]

Fish Interests Sclentists.

Berkeley, Cal. —The garpfke, a predatory fish of the ’Mississippi valley, one of the most remarkable creatures known to science for various reasons, has been discovered to possess another element of the unusual In a strange gland in the head, which exists in no other organism of the animal kingdom and which has no known use. It is something like the vermiform appendix in human beings. Not so much in structure la this so, but in that ft is apparently a vestige of evolution. .. The garpiko is one of the few remnants of a plass of fish's which were abundant in prehistoric ague.