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Three deep-sea fish families now one

Supposedly undiscovered male and young whalefish have been sitting in museum collections, and misclassified, all along

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

It’s the deep-sea version of “men are from Mars, women are from Venus.” With “kids are from Neptune” thrown in.

MARS/VENUS/NEPTUNE Male (lower image, top) and female (lower image, bottom) whalefish look so different that researchers have only now recognized that the two belong in the same family.