Americans Commonly Eat Orange Roughy, a Fish Scientists Say Can Live to 250-years-old
Orange roughy live in the deep ocean, where they're often caught by trawling ships. (Credit: New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research)Would you eat an animal if you knew it was as
old as the U.S. Constitution?Scientists in New Zealand have aged a fish
called an orange roughy at between 230- and 245-years-old, making it
one of the longest-lived fin-fish on record.
The ancient fish was born in the late 1700s
— and then caught
in 2015 by a New Zealand commerci
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