Saving Dory from Her Cuteness

Dory—the absent-minded sidekick from "Finding Nemo"—has her own movie now, and it’s a hit! But cool your fins—this might actually be a bad thing for her kind, Pacific Blue Tangs. Currently, blue tangs, which cannot be bred in captivity, are being unsustainably harvested for the aquarium trade. Now researchers are in a race against time to find a way to breed them successfully, and keep the real Dory in the sea.

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