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Are You My Mommy?
Human infants often already resemble their parents. Visitors coo, "Oh, she has your...
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A New Fish DROP-ping In
By diving in the Curasub, Smithsonian researchers with the Deep Reef Observation...
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A Baby Moray Eel, or a Really Small Adult?
This is an unidentified moray eel, collected from 650 feet off the coast of...
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Sea Toad
This fish belongs to a group of anglerfishes known as lophiiformes. This species,...
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Equipment for a Fossil Excavation
Paleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...
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Mystery from the Deep: The Puzzling Case of the Whalefish
In 1895, two Smithsonian scientists described a new kind of deep sea creature,...
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Ichthyologist
Find out more about the field of ichthyology and the vast collection of fishes at...
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Smithsonian Fish Collections
There are about 4 million specimens in the fish collection housed at the National...
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Three Mystery Fish
Are these three fish related? All three—a whalefish, bignose, and...
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Hedbergella sliteri
Hedbergella sliteri - this specific specimen is the "holotype" for this species....
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Palauan primitive cave eel (Protanguilla palau), a 'living fossil'
The Palauan primitive cave eel (Protanguilla palau) has an evolutionary history...
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