Author: Helen Thompson / Source: Science News
A new species of reef fish is a real head turner.
Last year while surveying a remote coral reef about 130 meters below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, ichthyologists Luiz Rocha and Hudson Pinheiro spotted a radiant fish hiding in a drab rock crevice.
“It was like finding a bright emerald in a coal mine,” recalls Pinheiro.
The fish, with its electric-pink-and-yellow body and bright green fins, was so mesmerizing, “it made us completely ignore a massive [shark] that was hovering over our heads,” Rocha says.
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| SURPRISE! Despite the exclamations of their fellow diver, Luiz Rocha and Hudson Pinheiro remained oblivious to a sixgill shark, up to 3 meters long, that snuck up on them as they observed a new… |
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