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Smithsonian Fish Collections

An image of collections storage at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Chip Clark/Smithsonian Institution

There are about 4 million specimens in the fish collection housed at the National Museum of Natural History. It is the largest of its kind in the world. Learn how these collections helped to solve an international scientific mystery.

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