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<p><span>Fishes that walk, fishes that breathe air, fishes that look like―and are―monsters from the deep. These and many more strange creatures swim through </span><span>The Rise of Fishes</span><span>, John A. Long’s richly illustrated tour of the past 500 million years. Long has updated his classi

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