How Goldfish Went From Pretty To Invincible And Back Again

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We began keeping goldfish as pets more than 1,000 years ago, but their beauty wasn’t the only thing they had going for them. Goldfish had a lot of really weird biological traits that made them incredibly resilient. And in an unfortunate twist, we’re now breeding away the very traits that once made them nearly invincible.

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