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(OT) A washed-up hoodwinker fish
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Pelle Svanslös
Mar 1, 2019, 12:43:33 AM3/1/19
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(CNN) This is the extraordinary tale of how a massive, strange-looking
fish wound up on a beach on the other side of the world from where it lives.
The seven-foot fish washed up at UC Santa Barbara's Coal Oil Point
Reserve in Southern California last week. Researchers first thought it
was a similar and more common species of sunfish -- until someone posted
photos on a nature site and experts weighed in.
It turned out to be a species never seen before in North America. It's
called the hoodwinker sunfish.
"When the clear pictures came through, I thought there was no doubt.
This is totally a hoodwinker," said Marianne Nyegaard, a marine
scientist who discovered the species in 2017. "I couldn't believe it. I
nearly fell out of my rocking chair".
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/28/us/hoodwinker-sunfish-north-america-trnd/index.html
A seven foot hoodwinker fish? Horrible!
fish wound up on a beach on the other side of the world from where it lives.
The seven-foot fish washed up at UC Santa Barbara's Coal Oil Point
Reserve in Southern California last week. Researchers first thought it
was a similar and more common species of sunfish -- until someone posted
photos on a nature site and experts weighed in.
It turned out to be a species never seen before in North America. It's
called the hoodwinker sunfish.
"When the clear pictures came through, I thought there was no doubt.
This is totally a hoodwinker," said Marianne Nyegaard, a marine
scientist who discovered the species in 2017. "I couldn't believe it. I
nearly fell out of my rocking chair".
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/28/us/hoodwinker-sunfish-north-america-trnd/index.html
A seven foot hoodwinker fish? Horrible!
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