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Australian Scientists Discover First New Species of Sunfish in 125 Years – Mental Floss
Sunfish are the biggest bony fish in the sea, but this species managed to elude scientists for centuries.
Scientists have pinpointed a whole new species of the largest bony fish in the world, the massive sunfish, as we learned from Smithsonian magazine. It’s the first new species of sunfish proposed in more than 125 years.
As the researchers report in theZoological Journal of the Linnean Society, the genetic differences between the newly named hoodwinker sunfish (Mola tecta) and its other sunfish brethren was confirmed by data on 27 different samples of the species collected over the course of thre…
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