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Caption: Christina Cheng, an animal biologist at the University of Illinois, poses with a photo of an Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) as it comes up a 3-foot hole drilled into the McMurdo Sound sea ice. The fish weighed in at about 70 pounds.
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
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