
Researchers Race To Save The Clownfish, Threatened By Fame
October 14, 2006 @ 02:35 PM (EST)
Source: Concordmonitor.com
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Under ideal conditions, a single clownfish can lay enough eggs to produce more than 500 minuscule, wriggling hatchlings.
So when researchers at a University of Maryland lab started breeding clownfish in captivity, it was easy to see that they were not creating ideal conditions. Their first six-plus months of effort, funded by thousands in federal grant money, produced two juvenile fish...
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