Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Did you know? New research, led by Emily Carr, a Ph.D. student in the Museum’s Richard Gilder Graduate School, suggests that biofluorescence in fishes dates back at least 112 million years and has evolved independently more than 100 times since then—with the majority of that activity happening among species that live on coral reefs.