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Fishy Mystery: Are Beached Oarfish Trying to Tell Us Something?

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A pair of giant, bony fish—one 18 feet long—washed up on California beaches this week. Are they climate change victims? Prophets of doom? Scientist Kevin Bailey on what we know.

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