Scientists accidentally created a new fish species0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 23, 2020
Scientists working with the Russian sturgeon and American paddlefish have accidentally created a new hybrid species.
Scientists working with the Russian sturgeon and American paddlefish have accidentally created a new hybrid species.
Scientists have discovered four new species and two new genera inhabiting the deep, abyssal landscape that lines the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
It all began as biologist and associate professor Ana Sofia Reboleira of the National Natural History Museum was scrolling though Twitter. There, she stumbled upon a photo of a North American millipede shared by her US colleague Derek Hennen of Virginia Tech. She spotted a few tiny dots that struck her well-trained eyes.
The odd animal, named Jinguofortis perplexus, displays an unusual mosaic of bird and dinosaur features.
Scientists who have been puzzling for years over the genetic “peculiarity” of a tiny population of orangutans in Sumatra have finally concluded that they are a new species to science.