RIPPLE MARKS—The Story Behind the Story

Abstract

Davy Jones' Locker, it might be called, this final resting place of an oarfish. In a darkened back room at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, ichthyologists Jeff Williams and Kris Murphy prepare to break the seal of a time capsule, a faded jar the color of yellow-green sea glass. A container that is a coffin.

Keywords

• oarfish
• Smithsonian