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‘Library of Fishes’ to Feature Thousands of Specimens from Remote Locations

*Fish treasure trove opened with funding from the National Science Foundation*

The stories they could tell, these fishes that once swam the ocean deep and are now in jars and bottles.

In the 1960s and ’70s, Richard Rosenblatt, a marine biologist at California’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), set out on field expeditions to remote places to study the fishes of the Pacific Ocean. (more…)

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