Mola Tecta ID - An Oral History

I know most people here have likely seen the dashboard announcement for this, but I wanted to share an oral history of the recent Mola tecta observation and ID collaboration from southern California that I compiled. It was a lot of fun reading everyone’s account of how it all went down.

https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/22612-holy-mola-the-oral-history-of-an-inat-identification

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this was a wonderful blog post, thanks for doing it! I had to unsubscribe from it due to all the comments, but i assume others are enjoying it too.

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Magnificent! Must have been fun to write, too!

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All I did was assemble it, have to give credit for everyone who took the time to write their part.

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Yeah, but someone had to assemble, make sense of it, have the idea in the first place :-) It was a nice job.

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How a bizarre, monster fish hoodwinked researchers and reeled in a wave of citizen scientists

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/22/hoodwinker-sunfish-discovery-north-america-citizen-scientists/4503250002/

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