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If you’d visited a series of bunkers in Louisiana in the early 1940s, you would’ve found weapons. Lots of weapons. Visit it today, and you’ll find yourself wandering among row upon row of pickled fish.
It’s a curious makeover for a vast expanse of storage space, one that came to pass thanks to humans’ love of wacky fish and the alleged lack of integrity of Dinwiddie Hall’s floors. This is the origin story of Tulane’s Biodiversity Research Institute (TUBRI), a place where you can find fish that are extinct, fish that nobody’s ever seen alive, and a fish that's the only known specimen of a deep-sea shark.
So, how did all ~8 million of these pickled fish get here, and why? We sat down with TUBRI director Brian Sidlauskas to find out.
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This interview first appeared in Issue 43 of our digital magazine CURIOUS.
