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Manmade Docks Offer Surprising Refuge for Endangered Fish

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Published Date:
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:41:30 +0000
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Biologists discover endangered Isthmian goby and other elusive fish thriving around dock pilings by Kristen Minogue The Panama Canal is home to one of the rarest fish in the world: the Isthmian goby, an endangered, brown-speckled fish less than 3 centimeters long. For years scientists thought it remained only at the locks of the canal’s […]
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