Reposted by Alex Dickson
In my latest story for the Smithsonian, I was lucky enough to get to know the American paddlefish – a threatened fish that predates the dinosaurs and has incredible sensory capabilities thanks to its long snoot.
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Meet the Spatula-Nosed Fish Whose Anatomy Has Hardly Changed Since the Cretaceous
The National Museum of Natural History’s new exhibition “From These Lands” features an American paddlefish, the last surviving species of an ancient lineage of fishes that predates dinosaurs
