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missyme06

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check this guy out, he looks anchent. found him on this site ---> http://www.dfpitalia.it/fotogallery/tsunami/deepsea.htm


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some of these are deffinately monsters
 
what on earth is it?
 
very cool!!!
 
missyme06;596852; said:
i don't know, but he's really cute and definatly from below the light line. a real story book style monster.
it doesn't look like a fish to me... look at the fin placement. there is also no obvious sign of gills. it could still be a fish. if it is, it's the oddest one I ever saw.
 
fishcatch22;596859; said:
it doesn't look like a fish to me... look at the fin placement. there is also no obvious sign of gills. it could still be a fish. if it is, it's the oddest one I ever saw.
:screwy: Look closer behind what passes as pectoral fins, there are gills :screwy:

It is a species of either Spearnose or Longnose Chimaera, found in the depths of the ocean, perhaps of the genus Harriotta.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimaera_(fish)

There were many false stories with pictures of this fish and many others attributed to being sucked from the oceans depths by the Indonesian Tsumani, all of which were FALSE.
They were all brought up during specimen collections/research.
 
ChileRelleno;596913; said:
:screwy: Look closer behind what passes as pectoral fins, there are gills :screwy:

It is a species of either Spearnose or Longnose Chimaera, found in the depths of the ocean, perhaps of the genus Harriotta.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimaera_(fish)

There were many false stories with pictures of this fish and many others attributed to being sucked from the oceans depths by the Indonesian Tsumani, all of which were FALSE.
They were all brought up during specimen collections/research.
I knew it was a fish, I was just trying to make a joke.

they look like very interesting fish.
 
I have no idea what that is and have never seen one. I am wondering what it does with that long nose/snout. Is it used to root through the sea bed for food? Is it used for defense or detection?
 
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