Proper hearing is important for finding food, avoiding predators and navigation, so it's likely that fish with deformed ear bones would have a reduced chance of survival in the wild, Reimer says.

Deformed fish found for years in a stretch of Oregon's Willamette River were damaged by something in the water, not by genetic defects as had been believed, according to a study released Friday.

Some of them came from rivers below Simplot’s Smoky Canyon Mine. But other fish pictured in the report, also with two heads and deformed bodies, “came from a hatchery in Wyoming,” writes Barker.

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The deformed fish recovered from their stunted tail growth and grew to a normal size. "I was surprised that they recovered their growth so quickly. That was encouraging," said Parrott.