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hey girl wanna come back to my place and chew on the ethernet cable
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POV u are extreme angler and aquatic detective Jeremy Wade and I just gifted you this homemade hat
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rating-fish · 2 years
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Daily fish fact #227
Gars! (Pictured here is a longnose gar)
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Fossil records indicate that gars used to be widespread, occupying every continent except Australia and Antarctica! Currently living species can only be found in North America, though. They can usually be found in shallow, freshwater or brackish water habitats.
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I distinctly remember seeing a documentary at I think the museum of natural history in late 2019 that described what i THINK i remember being a type of parrotfish using rocks to open sea urchins or scallops or something??? And it’s my go-to cool fish fact but i never can actually use it because I haven’t been able to find a single source actually confirming that or saying what type of fish it was and i feel like I imagined it
Send help (im p sure it was a parrotfish of some sort because i think it had a beak? It seemed pretty small for one, but maybe I dont have the right scale for a parrotfish. Definitely a middling size reef fish)
The fish you are thinking of is the Tuskfish! A common mistake to make, being as they are both Wrasses and are very visually similar.
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Tuskfish have been observed using rocks to crush clams, which makes them one of the first (if not the first) fish to be seen using tools.
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One of my favorite gifts this year :)
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rating-fish · 2 years
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MONSTER FISH (IN GENERAL) SHOULDN’T BE KEPT BY THOSE NOT IN ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTIONS. SORRY BUT IT HAD TO BE SAID.
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I caught a Sea Bass! No, wait - it’s at least a
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this is really specific and i’m sorry but i cried when i made this
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Yawn-off! We got ourselves a yawn-off everyone!
Male sarcastic fringeheads use their massive jaws to size up their rivals—sadly for the more thoughtful fringeheads, the guy with the biggest mouth usually wins…
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One of my favorite gifts this year :)
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In case you weren’t aware, sting rays are basically puppies.
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Certified Cutie 
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Anyone else feeling a serious squee overload with this cutie?⁠ 🥰
This is the bigtail snailfish, Osteodiscus cascadiae. Typically found in deep waters from 1,900 to 3,000 meters (6,200 to 9,800 feet), these little snailfish only grow up to 8.5 centimeters (about three inches). ⁠⁠These scaleless fishes are well-adapted to a variety of habitats, including rocky outcrops, the muddy seafloor, and even the midwater. They play an important role as prey and predator in many ecosystems. Most snailfish species are small and feed on tiny invertebrates, but larger species may prey upon other fishes. MBARI has observed over a dozen species of snailfish in the past 34 years of exploration. We suspect there are dozens more out there waiting to be discovered.⁠⁠
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