Video: Catfish Beaches Itself like a Killer Whale to Eat Pigeons

Ed Young, who writes the "Not Exactly Rocket Science" blog for Discover Magazine (and is in my opinion one of the best science writers around), has posted a remarkable video on YouTube of European catfish that have adapted to hunt pigeons on land. Dubbed "freshwater killer whales" by scientists researching the phenomena, these voracious predators--not native to European waters--temporarily beach themselves to grab their prey, much like Argentinian killer whales do when hunting sea lions...