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  <title><![CDATA[The evolution of blinking has eluded the research archives. Enter the mudskipper.]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>Researchers at Seton Hill University, Pennsylvania State University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology looked to the mudskipper, the amphibious fish&nbsp;that spends more than half of its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/meet-the-mudskipper-the-fish-that-walks-on-land" target="_blank">adult life on land</a>&nbsp;to study the evolution of blinking.&nbsp;The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220404120" target="_blank">study</a>, published in an April edition of <a href="https://www.pnas.org">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</a>, suggests that blinking may be one of the overlooked and yet important traits that allowed for the successful transition to life on land. <a href="https://physics.gatech.edu/user/simon-sponberg">Simon Sponberg</a>,&nbsp;Dunn Family Associate Professor in the <a href="https://physics.gatech.edu">School of Physics</a> and the <a href="https://biosciences.gatech.edu">School of Biological Sciences</a>, was one of the researchers for the study.&nbsp;(The study was also covered in the <a href="https://highschool.latimes.com/sage-hill-school/a-fish-that-blinks-mudskipper-human-evolution/">Los Angeles Times High School Insider</a>.)</p>
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      <url><![CDATA[https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2023/06/10/mudskippers-why-we-blink/stories/202306110002]]></url>
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      <value>2023-06-10</value>
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