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"Do you like fish sticks?"
"Yeah"
I love when "living fossils" get rediscovered, usually when a new species gets announced it's simply a reclassification of something that was already known to science but finding a living fossils truly feels like a  new organism has been found. >

The California Academy of Science is a very cool place, indeed. Claude, the albino alligator is awesome, then “the Rainforest” with all the beautiful butterflies, frogs and birds. I love that place. It’s always sold out tho :(
Edit: that rainbow fairy fish would be the coolest beta fish to own :) >

That gator is huge too! >

I thought Claude was the one I had seen in my youth, but he joined the academy in 2008. I remember one that was always there and so very old. I wonder what happened to him. I looked it up but it’s all about Claude. Maybe Charlie? >

Ah, I just read a children's book about Claude!
The previous resident was Bonnie and apparently, she became irritated with him always bumping into her...so she bit his foot and they had to remove a toe due to an infection. >

I love that two high school students found an unknown scorpion while doing a school assignment! >

You’re never too young to make a scientific discovery >

You know a joke is played out when the zoologists name a frog “Karen” >

The right wing GOP will have a mental breakdown over this discovery. >

The lack of images of rainbow fish in the article annoys the hell out of me. I see Damselfish and Wrasse, but not one Rainbow Fish. >

Here's an entire book about it. >

I was obsessed with that book as a kid. The cover was so fucking cool!