Lauren Arrington, 13, is being credited for a breakthrough discovery after she found that lionfish can survive in low-salinity water and even pockets of freshwater while working on a science fair project. Arrington and her father, ecologist and fish expert Albrey Arrington, conducted a series of rough experiments last year that inspired a more comprehensive study by researchers at North Carolina State University and Florida International University. The results of that study were recently published in the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes. "Sometimes it takes someone outside...
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