Near an island in the South Pacific Ocean, a bright red sea creature with “canine-like” teeth swam around the coral reef.
Photos from Liu, Hou, Mo, Li, Li, Luo, Rao and Li (2025) A Sebastapistes monospina, or tropical single-spined scorpionfish. Photo from J. E. Randall via Cabebe-Barnuevo and Motomura (2025 ...
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It turned out to be a new species. In the 1970s, scientists collected several “large”-eyed scorpionfish from an island in Australia and a few other remote locales. The specimens were thought ...