Well, maybe since this critter is aquatic, Noah left it off the ark . . .



But it sure looks like a fish that has started to turn into a frog-like animal to me . . .



http://www.bountyfishing.com/blog/images/mudskipper.jpg



Then there's this guy . . . Lays eggs but nurses its young from specially modified areas on it's underbelly; no boobies . . . It's a montotreme (a description that refers to its cloaca), and its relative, the platypus, has some similarities but a duck's beak and the male has a venom spike on its hind legs . . .



Sort of intermittent species between reptiles, birds, and mammalss, wouldn't you say?



And the fact that cottonmouths and copperheads can interbreed is proof there are "transitional species" (gotta address those talking points they fill you with; all species extant today are basically "transitional"; it's also likely evidence of past "genetic bottlenecks" (with very small ancestral populations) in those individuals that gave rise to several different species on the evolutionary "bush" (it's much easier to understand visualizing that way).



And how come if there's no evolution, the bushmaster, the largest pit viper, lays eggs while all the other pit vipers are live-bearers?

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