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The Fish That Becomes Three Different Animals
Aug 20, 2026 ·
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The Fish That Becomes Three Different Animals
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In the darkness of the midnight zone lives a deep red fish with tiny useless eyes, an enormous mouth, and a body covered in sensory pores. For decades, scientists thought...
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In the darkness of the midnight zone lives a deep red fish with tiny useless eyes, an enormous mouth, and a body covered in sensory pores.
For decades, scientists thought its young were a completely different kind of fish. They also believed its males belonged to yet another group.
They were wrong.
This is the extraordinary story of the whalefish family, and of an animal whose transformation is so dramatic that science needed genetics, museum collections, and more than a century of investigation to understand what it was actually looking at.
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For decades, scientists thought its young were a completely different kind of fish. They also believed its males belonged to yet another group.
They were wrong.
This is the extraordinary story of the whalefish family, and of an animal whose transformation is so dramatic that science needed genetics, museum collections, and more than a century of investigation to understand what it was actually looking at.
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| Author | Demi Rosario |
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