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Otago Dr. Roe Stuart didn't find a taniwha in the unexplored depths of New Zealand's lakes—but they may have found a new species of fish. "We have four lakes in New Zealand that exceed 400m (1,300 feet) deep, and the deepest records we had of fish life were 90m (300 feet)," says Stuart, who realized while doing postdoctoral work at Lake Champlain in the U.S. that no one knew what lurked in Aotearoa's lakes.

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