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Expired Cans of Salmon, Decades Old, Preserve a Huge Surprise


Scientists have made some intriguing parasite discoveries in an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum. Canned salmon, well past its prime, has preserved decades of Alaskan marine ecology in brine and tin.

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