Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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We were inspired by the Natural History Museum of L.A. showing us the beautiful Komodo dragon in their herpetology collections, so we decided this would be a good opportunity to show off our coelacanth, one of the largest specimens in our ichthyology collections. (And Jon, our ichthyology collections manager, of course.)

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