Space may be the final frontier, but let's not forget that there's another dark mystery lurking right here on our own planet — the ocean.
Scientists from 40 countries around the world have teamed up and discovered three new species of fish from the depths of the Pacific Ocean, ones that are almost nothing like most of the fish we know. For one thing, they have no scales.
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