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I wrote about the unbelievable face of the hingemouth, a fish that dared to ask: why NOT have backwards jaws and a mouth at the end of an elephant trunk? defector.com/the-little-f...
Around 14 years ago at the Smithsonian, L. Patricia Hernandez, an evolutionary biologist and functional morphologist at George Washington University, saw a fish that gobsmacked her. The late ichthyolo...
Clear and stained with Alizarin and alcian. The red fluoresces under GFP light
Fellow scientists!! If you have PAID summer internship opportunities please drop them below. I create monthly “marine science opportunities” posts for my large undergrad Instagram following and would love to include yours!
Here are some close up images comparing new denticles (left) to ones that are damaged (right)
Claspers of the Spotted Ratfish under fluorescent light. You can really see the layers and layers of denticles.
