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A Fish Out of Water?

wo “monster fish,” or alligator gars, were recently discovered in the lake of a park in Ruzhou, Henan Province. To catch the fish, the whole lake, equivalent to 200,000 cubic meters of water, had to be drained so that there would be no alligator gars left to prey on other aquatic life in the future.

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