Hungarian researchers trying to breed Russian sturgeons and American paddlefish in captivity to help their depleted numbers inadvertently created what the Internet calls a “big shot”, a hybrid version of the two freshwater inhabitants. The species, revealed in the July 6 issue of the journal Genes, was accidentally generated through …
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Meet the big shot: a new species of fish accidentally created by scientists in Hungary. It is an unusual mix of two endangered species, the American spoonbill and the Russian sturgeon. According to a study published in the journal Genes, researchers from the Hungarian National Center for Agricultural Research and …
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One would think that at least 184 million years of evolution on completely separate continents would be enough to make two species of fish sexually incompatible. That was the assumption of scientists in Hungary when they placed sperm from an American oarfish near the eggs of a Russian sturgeon in …
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