For a century over 500 whalefish sat in museum jars and every one was female while all 65 big nosed fish from the same deep ocean were male, and no one guessed they were one animal

Somewhere in a museum’s cold back rooms, a pale fish has floated in a jar for longer than anyone working there has been alive. It does not look like a whale, or a monster, or anything strange. For all that time, no one realized these creatures were the same animal. They sat on different shelves, filed ... Read more