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- “Falling Fish” Earthweek: A Diary Of The Planet, Orange County Register, March 7, 1994, photocopy from RG Larson
Falling Fish
Small fish have been found flapping around in parking lots and on roads south of Darwin after rainstorms in Australia’s desert Outback.
Beryl Morris, a zoologist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, theorizes that the heavy rains trigger dry fish eggs to suddenly hatch, and then high winds or updrafts carry the newborns considerable distances. “The first time it
happened last week, they were everywhere,” said innkeeper Adele Liebelt. “They’re only little fish, so the birds took them away.” Most of the young desert fish measured between one and two inches in length.
- Xeroxed Classics Scientific Reports #4, The Sourcebook Project featuring…
- Showers of Organic Matter by Waldo L. McAtee, published in Monthly Weather Review 45 (May 1917): 217-224.
- Rains of Fishes by E. W. Gudger, November-December 1921, Natural History Magazine.
- UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES
Washington, D. C. 20240 Fishery Leaflet 513
RAINS OF FISHES By Lola T. Dees
Branch of Reports, Division of Resource Development (April 1961)
rains-of-fishes-lola-t-dees-leaflet513 (PDF)
Showers of Organic Matter
2i8. MON!FHLY WEATHEk BEVIEW. May, 1917 waa carried 900 feet. During the tornado of April 16,. 1875, at Walterborough, S. C., a piece of timber 6 inches.