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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