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Sunday, December 1, 2013
December 2013/Creature #33: Acipenser
In the 16th and 17th century, explorers sailing the northern seas gave this name to a giant fish whose scales were on backwards, opening towards the front instead of the rear. This caused it to swim much more slowly than other fish; yet it was so vast that no one seems to have attempted to capture one. Stories of this kind almost always seems to arise from sightings of whales or, in this case, possibly giant surgeons, the fish from which caviar is extracted.
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