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| Beluga Sturgeon (Photo by Seedlens) |
Because Russian sturgeon
are in danger of going extinct,
scientists are trying to save them. Not because of interspecies empathy, but because
these fish produce some of the world’s
yummiest caviar.
While utilizing American-paddlefish sperm in order to nudge Russian sturgeons into “asexual
reproduction,” Hungarian researchers
instead created a “Frankenfish.” To everyone’s surprise, a hybridization occurred
between the two Acipenseriformes (look
it up).
Who would have
thunk?
These two evolutionarily-linked
partners would never have otherwise met. One inhabits the Mississippi River
Basin, whereas the other swims in Russian
rivers. But thanks to modern science, these
aquatic hook-ups have now spawned a
lineage of “sturddlefish.”
Ain’t genetics grand?
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