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the study of fish, where new species swim into science faster than we can name them
means Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the scientific study of fish — their classification, anatomy, behavior, and ecology.
from Built from Greek roots: ichthys, "fish," plus -logia, "study of." That same ichthys was the early Christian acrostic and secret symbol — the little fish carved on walls and tombs — because its letters spelled out a creed. Science later borrowed the word for a colder, scalier purpose: cataloguing the actual swimmers.
- new species
- Hundreds of fish described every single year
- deep mystery
- Most ocean depths remain completely unexplored
- ancient lineage
- Fish predate dinosaurs by 200 million years
- counting scales
- Scale rings reveal a fish's age like trees
- electric senses
- Some species navigate using self-generated electric fields