The Accidental Creation of a Hybrid Fish - The Atlantic

The Accidental Creation of a Hybrid Fish - The Atlantic

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“[It’s like] if a human came out of a platypus egg.”

The unintentional creation of ‘sturddlefish’ — hybrids with American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) fathers and a Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii) mothers — could shake up our understanding of how animals breed, says ichthyologist Prosanta Chakrabarty. (Quanta | 7 min read)

Reference: Genes paper