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

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 :)

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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.

You’re never too young to make a scientific discovery

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"Do you like fish sticks?"

"Yeah"

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

did anyone else blow on their screen when they opened the article?

It really is! My wife and I went here on our second date 14 years ago cause we’re huge nerds so occasionally we’ll go there for anniversaries. The “backstage” tour is really cool!

That gator is huge too!

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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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrhilabrus_finifenmaa

I would not want to own it, it would make a cool beta fish tho. I spoke inelegantly

That's a Wrasse, not a Rainbow Fish.

That's fair

Thank you

They were using the word "rainbow" as a descriptor rather than the type of fish. Melanotaeniidae is the family of rainbowfish, a single word.

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?

The rooftop tour, right? We did that one too! It’s really breathtaking. I seem to remember we had to book it 2 mos or so in advance, cant just show up and go like the old aquarium was. But worth it, so worth it!

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

I love that it was by way of iNaturalist. I was introduced to iNaturalist by a stranger I bumped into in the ocean this past summer. I'm addicted now.

ahem.... Then you're a gay fish!

It's bloody misleading is what it is. They should have written Rainbow Wrasse to be accurate.

"Duh, I'm literally a rainbow. Now where's my boyfriend Kanye?"

Well, he's not on Twitter... Have you tried your local Sketches store? I heard he shows up there unannounced sometimes...

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

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.