Kiara McFadden
Principles of Biology I
Professor Burrell
September 24, 2006

Raloff, J.: "Bad-News Beauties" Science News

Within the past ten years, lionfish with red, black, and white stripes on its body, fins, and dozens of spines along its head, back, and sides have been increasingly showing up along the eastern coast of the United States from North Carolina to Florida. This is a big problem for domestic fish that already live in these areas. These fish are shaped like a football, can grow up to eighteen inches, and are poisonous to the touch.
There are several said ways as to how these fish entered the coast. Many biologists say that it was due to Hurricane Andrew in 1995. The reason for this is because it destroyed a Miami home on Biscayne Bay that contained an aquarium with six red lionfish in it. Several of the lionfish were spotted in the Bay shortly after the hurricane hit. Walter R. Courtenay, a fisheries biologist at the United States Geological Survey in......

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