“X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out,” is a new exhibition of striking x-rays that reveal the complex bone structure of fishes in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
In this fun, accessible and informative book, ichthyologists Gene Helfman, professor emeritus at the University of Georgia, and Bruce Collette, of the Division of Fishes at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, provide accurate, entertaining, and sometimes surprising answers to more than 100 common and not-so-common questions.
Faced with insufficient time and inadequate library resources to tackle the problem on their own, they instead posted a catalog of specimen images to Facebook and turned to their network of colleagues for help.
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