“A New History of Fishes”, a mini-symposium on the history of ichthyology, Leiden 🇳🇱

Mini-symposium at Leiden University (hybrid):📢 Title: A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)📅 Date: Wednesday – 27 March 2024⏰ Time: 15:15 – 17:00 CET🏛️ Venue: Vossius room, Leiden University Library, Witte Singel 27, 2311 BG Leiden💻 Join via Zoom Fish and other forms of aquatic life have shaped…

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FishBase helped shrink a fossil fish

The fossil fish ‘Dunkleosteus terrelli’, a predatory fish that terrorized the seas some 370 million years ago, and reputed for their alleged enormous size, were much smaller than originally presumed,  new study in Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute reveals. Previous estimate of length for this fish ranged from 5 to 10…

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Rodolfo Reyes Jr.: The morphology guy

Rodolfo Reyes Jr., aka Rudy, joined FishBase in 1993 after working on a series of coral reef fisheries projects at the Marine Science Institute of his Alma Mater, the University of the Philippines. Although he was hired at FishBase to work on morphology data, Rudy’s very first task was completely…

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