Flying Fish Flies For Forty-Five Feconds!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7410421.stm

There's video at the site and it is fairly amazing.

I wonder how do those things taste

Maybe they are evolving!?

This set of miniseries on TLC a few years back ("The Future Is Wild" 1 & 2) that speculated on some possible viable evolutionary paths future life life could take - one was descendant of modern flying fish that could really fly long distances (but more like an insect did) only had to return water to mate.

I get the fact that they glide, but wouldn't they have to get up to a certain height in the first place?

Flying Squirrels glide too, but they start out the glide by jumping from a tree - cheaters!

You've never seen a fish jump out of water?

I've seen them float to the top after I farted in it