The next video should give you a clue! This preserved angler, resident at the Natural History Museum, ate a fish twice its length before dying. Imagine trying to swallow something bigger than yourself. This is how you and I would get stretch marks — guaranteed! Check out the next video to see an impressive image of the prey species inside this hairy anglerfish:. Not much to emulate, IMHO!! Seriously, check out my article on fascinating Octopus sex and the story of the detachable penis!
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He has visited over 90 countries and happily shares his personal experiences and insights in a dynamic and entertaining style. Albatrosses are large seabirds with the longest wingspans of any bird in the world, up to 10 or 12 feet. As a biologist, I became intrigued with the flight of the albatross after watching huge Whenever I listen to the song of a Humpback whale, I am captivated by the eery quality of the complex sounds.
Skip to content. Is this romantic or what!? If only Shakespeare had known! Female anglerfish carry weird little parasites Since anglerfish are deep sea creatures, it took scientists years and years to figure this stuff out. Female anglerfish with a male attached — follow the red arrow. There are over species of anglerfish Anglerfishes are named for the highly modified dorsal fin spines that they use to lure prey. Humpback anglerfish Melanocetus johnsonii. Public domain, from August Brauer — : In C.
The two fish essentially become one. With his body attached to hers like this, the male doesn't have to trouble himself with things like seeing or swimming or eating like a normal fish. Throughout the other suborders, there are males that are free-swimming their whole lives, that can hunt on their own and that only attach to the females temporarily to reproduce before moving along. For deep-sea ceratioids that might only rarely bump into each other in the abyss, though, the weird mating ritual is a necessary adaptation to keep mates close at hand and ensure that there will always be more little anglerfish.
BY Matt Soniak. He adds the technique could also be a way of mimicking venomous jellyfish to avoid being eaten. The submersible the Jakobsens used to film the anglerfish has been in operation since With such sparse research on this curious species, there's more to discover in the future.
Tubeworms red , an eelpout fish, and a crab jockey for space near a hydrothermal vent. Learn about the weird animal community at the Pacific Ocean's deepest hydrothermal vent. A previous version of this story incorrectly stated there were more than species of deep-sea anglerfishes.
There are more than anglerfish species, but only live in the deep sea. This story has been updated. All rights reserved. Something fishy is happening thousands of feet under the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean.
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India bets its energy future on solar—in ways both small and big. Some species of anglerfish — the deep-sea predator that uses a luminous lure to attract prey — have a bizarre way of reproducing: they fuse with their mates. We now know how the fish can fuse tissues without triggering a potent immune response.
They have a strange immune system. There are known species of anglerfish , which are found at ocean depths beneath about metres. Some species mate through a process known as sexual parasitism.
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