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Lungfish

The lungfish are located in rivers and lakes in Africa, South America, and Australia. Physically they resemble an eel, however, they are very different. The lungfish is equipped with fins that they use as arms when crawling on land. They will only be seen on land when searching for a new body of water. They also secrete mucus that is used as a defense system and as a way to to bury themselves in mud and layers of mucus where they hibernate and wait for the water level to rise.

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