Tuesday, November 23, 2010

THE WHELFISH MYSTERY AND THE SEXUAL DIMORPHISM


''More than a century ago, in 1895, two Smithsonian scientists described a new kind of deep sea creature living at least 1000 m (3,280 ft) below the ocean’s surface—a part of the ocean that we still know very little about.
The scientists named their find the whalefish because of its whale-like appearance. Little did they know that this fish would become one of the prime suspects in a mystery that took scientists from around the world decades to solve..''
The Smithsonian  National Museum of  Natural history

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