The barreleye fish is one of the WEIRDEST fish in the sea. Image from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Apparently when they’re alive, they’re actually a very pretty shade of blue. If you google it, the fish itself appears to be rather…hideous, but that’s because the only clear pictures we have are of old dead corpses.
Only one baby has ever been photographed. We think they give birth to live young, but we’re not sure. They can’t survive the pressure change when we try to remove them from the deep, so we have to study them in the wild, which takes a lot of work.
We discovered the coelacanth when someone accidently fished one up, and that’s pretty much the most contact anyone has had with one. Scientists figure coelacanths basically stopped evolving about 400 million years ago. This would be like finding a wooly mammoth wandering around the Arctic. In fact, for a long time, as far as we knew, coelacanths existed ONLY as fossils. The coelacanth is an ancient fish, with weird tubelike organs and bone structures that tie back to earlier days in evolution. Whatever, we’re writing the article, and we choose the categories. One specimen recently made the news for eating another shark whole.įirstly, because I know someone is going to say it, yes, sharks are fish. Those ridiculous tassels hide the face of an ASSASSIN. It lives on the ocean floor, where it just kind of hangs out, as seaweed does.īut don’t let appearances fool you.
WOBBEGONG.īut the ridiculousness doesn’t end there. To begin with, it has the most ridiculous name of all the sharks. On the other end of the shark spectrum is the tasseled wobbegong. On a goblin shark, it just adds to the terror.
COOL DEEP SEA CREATURES SKIN
Also, their skin is so thin that in the light, they look pink. They eat squid, crabs, and fish-basically anything they can catch with their terrifying shooting jaws. Goblin sharks live near the ocean floor, so deep that we rarely get to see them alive. Seriously, it’s the craziest thing you’ll ever see. When this horrifying monstrosity closes in on a tasty fish, it SHOOTS ITS OWN JAW at the animal to catch it. See that terrifying mouth? It’s DETACHABLE. Here are some fantastic aquatic fauna that illustrate just why we feel this way: Rachael: Obviously, we can both agree that marine life is Literally the Best Thing Ever. As much as I adore the sea, Rachael has one-upped this passion by actually working full-time for an ocean-conservation group. Amy Rose who? Clearly, I’ve always really loved the ocean, a fact which is still truer than true today, even if I don’t actively identify as a mermaid anymore (in public, anyway). We live for the new and the puzzling.Amy Rose: When I was very little, I would introduce myself to strangers as “Ariel,” as in the Little Mermaid, and insist against my mother’s corrections that, no, that was in fact my name. Well, this is why it’s exploration, we live for this stuff. You know, I hope you don’t get offended by this but I am delighted that I’ve given you a puzzle. I think we’re gonna have to work on that for quite a while to figure that one out. You’ve given us a real puzzle here with that fish. There aren’t any of this animal known from Hawaii. I don’t mean six species, I mean six specimens of these. He’s not sure which is bigger, the ROV or the sponge! They are among the deepest known sea stars to live.Īnd this is absolutely the biggest caulophacus I’ve ever seen in my life. This is new for the Hawaiian region, this is a freyastera.
It’s a polychelid! They’re normally just sitting on the bottom and not swimming. These are henricia, which feed on sponges. And this is part of NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research. We’re looking at places that no one has looked before.
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