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The 81-year-old midnight snapper, caught in 2016 off Western Australia, is the oldest known tropical reef fish. Photograph: Australian Institute of Marine Science
December 3, 2020
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When it was born, the second world war was several years away, none of the Beatles were alive and there were about five billion fewer people above the waves than today. An unnamed 81-year-old midnight snapper, caught by the Australian Institute of Marine Science in 2016, has been revealed as the oldest tropical reef fish known to science.

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