The most common fish in the sea can make a room glow blue
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The most common fish in the sea can make a room glow blue
The lantern fish, of the Myctophidae family, are perhaps the most common fish in all the oceans*, and yet we know little about them. They come from the middle depth of the deep sea and it has been estimated there are a billion metric tons of lantern fish in the world's oceans. They are so-called because they glow like lanterns, usually with a ...
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