Interesting In General
The summer pastime has evolved from a backyard game to a semi-serious sport.
Also:A fish's zigzag taxi to takeoff
This photo of a flying fish carving the water with its tail shows how it becomes airborne.
Taken from a yacht in the Timor Sea, it shows how the fish break free of the water by angling upwards and accelerating to about 60km/h. Their wing-like pectoral fins enable them to glide for up to 200m out of water.
Unlike almost all other fish, their unevenly forked tail's bottom lobe is far longer than the top. They stay airborne by flapping their tails up to 70 times a second as the lower lobe touches the water.
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