A fact from Sargassum fish appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 January 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the sargassum fish(pictured) can increase the size of its mouth in a fraction of a second and swallow prey larger than itself?
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The page is quite limited for such a popular fish. Especially considering the abundance of information floating on just the first 10 pages on Google. I'm going for the {{sofixit}} and seeing how I can improve the article myself. Please feel free to help! - [Vague]07:15, 18 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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