Many of scientific creations and inventions occur through accidents. They have usually forged accidents. This is because the experts are always in constant search of solutions. This was literally what happened to a team at the Fisheries and Aquaculture Research Institute, Hungary. Scientists cared for a fish, which is in danger of extinction, and ended up creating, accidentally, an unprecedented fusion.
It is a marine animal that they identified as the ‘bull fish’. The new species is a hybrid of a spatula fish and a sturgeon, the latter endangered. Scientists used sperm from a spatula to try to make sturgeon eggs reproduce. So they executed an asexual process called gynegenesis.
Explains the Daily Mail portal that they chose the spoonbill certain that both species cannot reproduce. While the spoonbill is common in the rivers of the United States, sturgeon is unique to the waters of the old continent. Then, having never come into contact, reproduction between the two becomes almost impossible. However, the DNA managed to fertilize the sturgeon eggs.
New species of fish in the sea
The scientists argued that, like many hybrid species, they do not have the ability to reproduce. That is to say, there will not be millions of bull fish, in a few years, it is what they maintain. However, they state that the specimens that were created could have the capacity to live for approximately 100 years.
Meanwhile, scientists claim that this means being a positive result for their purpose. Which is nothing more than saving the sturgeon fish species. “These phenomena could lead to greater similarity, compatibility and flexibility between sturgeon genomes,” the researchers said in an article. They also specified that they never wanted to play with the merger. Both fish have several things in common and one of them is that they are in serious danger of disappearing. Only the sturgeon has a more critical state than the spatula.