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An expert might spend dozens of hours manually analyzing a microscope slide and find only a fraction of the thousands of specimens present.
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Ingrid C. Romero,
The Conversation,
5 May 2026
Despite their aging heart, the sharks seemed quite able to get around—some of the specimens in the study were collected by longline fishing in Greenland waters, suggesting the sharks could find bait and successfully capture it.
After extreme flooding events in the 1980s and 1990s, the fish escaped into the Mississippi River basin, and, alongside silver carp, bighead remain the most detrimental to aquatic environments.
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Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2026
The fish look like they’ve been plucked from the surface of the moon, with a porous, shaggy batter that shatters.