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Mystery from the Deep: The Puzzling Case of the Whalefish

Whalefish Specimen
(Kunio Amaoka)

In 1895, two Smithsonian scientists described a new kind of deep sea creature, which they named the “whalefish.” Little did they know, this fish would become one of the prime suspects in an international mystery that took scientists decades to solve.

Tags: Smithsonian collections Smithsonian scientists
November 2010
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