The writer C.S. Lewis once said that “Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal.” He may have been speaking symbolically, but he wasn’t too far from the truth!
The name Amphibians comes in essence from the Greek meaning “two” and “modes of life”. Their ability to transform from water-breathing juveniles into an air-breathing adults, meant a better chance at finding food and less of a chance that they would have to fight for it. But learning to breathe wasn’t the only thing up against these aquatic pioneers. The greatest challenge was how to get there.

In the beginning, one group of amphibians developed multi-jointed leg-like fins which allowed them to crawl along the sea floor. And incredibly, the mudskipper pictured above is part of that same family. And not only were their bodies in an evolutionary deviation, but their minds were too!