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Carolyn Porco
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Voyager & Cassini! AAS Carl Sagan Medal 2010. Asteroid Porco 7231. Inaugural NatGeo Eliza Scidmore Award. Living my best life.
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Impressive!
If you're a scientist and you observe a swallowed eel escaping its fish predator via the gills, you get an X-ray camera system to see what's what. And you see exactly what kind of acrobatic shenanigans eels use to squirm out. Also, HELL YES my @cnn.com article about it has excerpts of X-ray video 🧪
Eels’ escape shows ‘the fight for survival doesn’t end after being eaten,’ scientist says | CNN
After being swallowed alive, Japanese eels were able to escape from a predator fish’s stomach and swim to freedom through the fish’s gills, new research shows.
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Carolyn Porco
@carolynporco.bsky.social
Voyager & Cassini! AAS Carl Sagan Medal 2010. Asteroid Porco 7231. Inaugural NatGeo Eliza Scidmore Award. Living my best life.
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