Deadly walking fish are slowly closing in on Australia

An aggressive fish that can walk has made it from Papua New Guinea to islands in the Torres Strait and now has mainland Australia in its sights. The climbing perch is supposed to be a freshwater species, but scientists from Queensland’s James Cook University yesterday confirmed that they had found the fish surviving in salty waterholes on Boigu and Saibai Islands, more than four kilometres from the PNG mainland.
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