Staff at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium have reared a special kind of fish known as a warty frogfish for the first time in captivity. Their success may hold broader lessons for raising marine species.
The baby fish, which is roughly the size of a pea, was raised from a surprise egg mass discovered last fall ...
It marks the first time this particular fish has been successfully raised from the larval stage in an aquarium setting.
The team is hoping that insights from the fish's growth will help them in future conservation and breeding pursuits.
A tiny, yellow-and-orange juvenile warty frogfish rests on a coral-like object in a habitat at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium. A tiny fish is making big waves at Shedd Aquarium as animal caretakers ...
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