Los Angeles Times: The first published study of skin cancer in wild fish appeared yesterday in the journal PloS ONE. The discovery was made by accident when scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, who were studying shark prey along the Great Barrier Reef, noticed strange dark patches on the normally bright-orange skin of coral trout. They turned to another research team, from the UK?s University of Newcastle, that was studying coral disease in the area. Together, they determined that the dark patches were a form of melanoma. Why the incidence of melanoma is so high in those fish?around 15%?is still unknown, but the researchers surmise that it is due in part to their living near the reef, which is both at the outermost edge of the trout?s habitable range and under the biggest hole in Earth?s ozone layer.
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