boxfish
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Nature has no shortage of patterns, from spots on leopards to stripes on zebras and hexagons on boxfish.
From Science Daily • Nov. 8, 2023
A sleeping boxfish draped like a noodle over a coral branch.
From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2019
In a March 11 Science, Jake Buehler omitted the name of one of the institutions involved in a new boxfish study.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2015
A boxfish turns on a dime at the first sign of a threat and barrels expertly into the coral cover of the reef.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2015
But compared with just about every Nemo and Dory on the reef, the boxfish moves more like an armoire clumsily towed behind a boat.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2015
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