General Bluster: “Look, Professor, we’re soldiers, not scientists! Try to explain why you called us here in words we can understand!”
Prof. Reason: “Very well, General. After a careful examination of this monstrous specimen, by all indications closely related to the common Ictalurns Punctacus, I was startled to find vestigual gill striations generally associated with a catfish freshly emergent from the eggsack.”
General Bluster, shocked: “You mean…”
Prof. Reason: “Yes, General. There can be no doubt…this 650 pound catfish WAS BUT A SPAWNLING!! Now, let me show you this movie I’ve put together, which will explain why naturalists commonly refer to the catfish as ‘the killer shrew of the deep’…”
