Farewell, Java stingaree: Scientist declare the first marine fish extinction

In 1862, German naturalist Eduard von Martens was part of a multiyear expedition to . That July, he found himself in a fish market in the city of Jakarta on the island of Java, then part of a Dutch colony. For a naturalist from temperate Germany, such a market must have been full of tropical […]

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