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monk fish
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Walks through sylvan glades and mountain meadows would be very different if you encountered things like this (monk fish) sitting on logs every so often. Kinda spoils the serenity. Source Sitting on the keel of the HMS Ark Royal, this Monkfish let us take some close up shots about 80 miles off o...
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A parasitic crustacean - A Real Tongue Snatcher
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The Cymothoa exigua, a parasitic crustacean, is a true-to-life tongue snatcher. The parasite prays on the Spotted Rose Snapper Fish found off the coast of California. Cymothoa exigua swim into the fish's gills and latch onto its tongue. Once attached, it begins to suck the fish's blood. Eventuall...
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10 creatures, each one step short of an alien life form
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3. Firefly Squid This squid sees the world in color. And it makes deep-blue pretty light itself. (image credit: Phil Livelsberger) The firefly squid (watasenia scintillans), also called the sparkling enope squid has special deep-blue light producing organs called photophores - by flashing the...
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What lurk in the depths - fish stories
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What lurked in the depths, now is going to haunt your boat. Be careful what you hook up. Aside from picking some vicious industrial garbage, you can bring to the surface some strange and unmentionable things. Most fishermen will happily brag about an extraordinary big fish (and we'll show plenty of t...
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The Northern Snakehead fish wreaks havoc
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1987
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BROWN BEARS FISHING FOR SALMON
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Life in the Deep
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Many species of deep ocean fish have special adaptations to living in extremely high pressure, low light conditions. Viper fish (Mesopelagic - found at 80-1600 meters - about a mile down) are some of the most wicked looking fish dredged up from the depths. Some of them are black as night all over with l...
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Giant fish 'verges on extinction'
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What do you know--another tragedy out of China. This one comes in the form of an expected recently extinctified (made up word) giant freshwater fish known as the Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius). It used to haunt the mighty waters of the Yangtze River. These monsters measured in at around 21 f...
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