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Daily fish fact #712

Grideyes!

In place of eyes, the fish of this genus have large, flattened pale "plaques" on their face which sense light! One study found that larvae of these species have normal lens-having eyes, and so theorised that the developing fish go through a metamorphosis where their eyes become the plaques of adults.

It’s kind of amazing just how much different types of presentation can give you radically different ideas about animals. Like you take something like the deep-sea dragonfish and the photos they’re presented in often make them look like a leviathan right out of a horror story:

But then you’ll sometimes see a photo that puts them more to scale and then they’re suddenly just

....Little guy.

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ghost sharks have long tapering bodies and incredibly large heads. their skin ranges in color from black to pale blue to brownish grey and is quite smooth. they have large eyes, oversized nostrils, and large, visible teeth, which give them a rabbit-like appearance, though within their mouths are three tooth plates.

ghost sharks have mineralized tooth plates. they use these teeth to crush mollusks and worms, making for an interesting diet.

ghost sharks primarily caught as bycatch. while their meat is edible, the majority of their commercial value comes from their livers, which contain an oil known as squalene that's used in a wide variety of cosmetic and pharmaceutical products.

I just made the funniest thing

I haven’t even seen the anime but I AM a big fan of Kenshi Yonezu AND have an interest in marine life

partly an info dump about my favorite creatures; partly a plea for my life

earth fact time. meet the bloody-belly comb jelly, quite possibly the coolest fucking jellyfish i've ever seen. they're deep-sea jellyfish, and can be many different red shades, but their stomachs are always blood red - hence the name. and they sparkle because of light reflecting off teeny tiny little hairs called cilia!

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Aquamech Merfolk Observation Unit I - IV

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I love this series I started so much. It's a lot of fun to sketch up these horrifying cuties of the deep in a style that truly shows off their weirdness in a cute way <3

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Daily fish fact #463

Tube-eye!

Also called a thread-tail; they’re deep sea fish that suck in very small prey through their tubular mouth! They can expand their mouth several times larger than normal, causing a vacuum that sucks in anything small enough to fit in their mouth.

Octo-ber #11: The Vent Octopus (or Hot Water Volcano Octopus) is endemic to hydrothermal vents, so it can survive temperatures up to 91 degrees Celsius! It lives in darkness, so it has no need for chromatophores or ink sacs.

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