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A woman in a lab coat and safety glasses is working with a small fish on a dish in a lab.

A fish-eye lens into the past – reading the lives of historic fish

Have fish diets changed over the last 150 years? Auckland University of Technology Master’s student Roen McLeod is seeing whether the eye lenses of Te Papa’s historic fish collection could one day reveal where they were feeding and what they were eating. The natural history collection built and cared for byRead more

2026-07-17
By: Te Papa and Roen McLeod
On: 17 Jul 2026
In: Science

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