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Thursday, August 12, 2021

Shape-shifting fish that confounded scientists for 100 years spotted off California coast [LiveScience, August 2021]

Title:
Shape-shifting fish that confounded scientists for 100 years spotted off California coast
 
Author:
Ben Turner
 
Published:
LiveScience, 12 August 2021
 
From the article:
The bright orange, female whalefish (of the order Cetomimiformes) was spotted half-swimming, half-gliding through the glare of submarine's lights around 6,600 feet (2,013 meters) deep offshore of Monterey Bay, California. The whalefish sighting was one of only 18 made by marine biologists from The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute during 34 years of deep-sea exploration.