I like that compared to other giant catfish like Wels and the Mekong guy this thing is shaped like something you’d get in an aquarium but just… huge. Also, those must be some of the biggest barbels of any fish right? So thick!
Iconic TV fish botherer Jeremy Wade poses with a Goonch catfish that he’s holding out of muddy water. The Goonch is shaped like a “normal” pleco-ish catfish but is huge (~1.5m long) and has a massive mouth full of sharp teeth. Credit: River Monsters I assume?
Current Absurd Fish Fixation is the Goonch catfish (Bagarius bagarius). How lucky are we to share an Earth with this absurd beast?
What's crazy is that I know the exact reference video for this because of the billhook being used
Sure, but I'd imagine the sensible plan would also have caused untold human misery and guaranteed profit for interested parties. I'm just grasping at straws for any explanation beyond sheer dumb evil I guess.
Average depressing Quora question
What I don’t get is that there have been American ghouls wanting to do a war in Iran for decades. Surely somewhere in a filing cabinet at the Pentagon theres a “sensible” plan (not that an unprovoked attack on another sovereign nation is ever justifiable)
For the people in the back 😤😤😤😤😤
Look at his large scales! Look at his sucking mouth? Gotta admire a fish that does what it says on the tin.
I mean he has undergone a sex change to end up this colour 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Should make the point that if that is the case then I'm not upset about it. I'd rather DoD money gets spent on fisheries than the Raytheon R9X Knife Missile.
Spouting off uninformed about fisheries here (which as a marine biologist has definitely got me in trouble before) but is this in part a way for the govt to subsidise fisheries? If they spent $7mil on lobster every month it would be ~7.5% of the Maine lobster fishery, not insignificant.
Come to think of it, that probably means that the photophores up that end of the mantle are for counterillumination, right?
In this issue, Chen et al. present the first population genomics analyses of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vent animals, using eight populations of the scaly-foot snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum) distributed across three mid-ocean ridges. They show an asymmetric south-to-north gene flow driven by deep currents and aided by ghost populations. Their results also identify source-sink dynamics and dispersal barriers essential for conservation planning in the context of upcoming deep-sea mining. The scaly-foot snail is an iconic vent-endemic species famed for the iron-infused sclerites on its foot and functions as a flagship species in deep-sea conservation efforts.
NEW Issue is out!👇
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
As the world is being plunged into the abyss, we bring you some abyssal scaly-footed snails from the deep ocean.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Plus it's #MolluscMonday
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This is a good one
Something about this cover image and title is giving real "Les Cousins Dangereux" energy to me
They look like how reef fish look in 18th century scientific illustrations!
Aha good job - there were lateral photos that show them off better but I love the facial expression on this fella
A fish with three pairs of horns along its head and back and an intricate striped pattern on its bulbous lumpy body swims among seaweed. Credit: Alan Travers via Wikimedia.
A male Aracana boxfish looks at the camera. He has a long face with a small mouth and bright, garish turquoise stripes on an orange body, with a matching loopin pattern on his tail and hexagonal spots elsewhere. Julian K. Finn via Fishes of Australia
What the fuuuuck how am I just learning about Aracana. Look at these whimsical little dudes!!
Rhizanthes lowii "flower" photo by Ch'ien Lee, a terrible plant structure that looks like a free-range rectum, positively swarming with delighted flies
"flower" of Mitrastemon yamamoti from Suetsugu (2018), another stinky plant structure that attracts a VAST array of insects (including flies, beetles, cockroaches, orthopterans, etc) to come nibble its horrid pink flesh
reading up on holoparasitic plants, regretting it instantly
WW2 airmen named their inflatable life jackets after Mae West
There is a single Benthosema glaciale floating around somewhere off Mauritania that for a split second today visualised the face of god then immediately forgot it when a particularly tasty euphausiid swam past.
Speaking of which happy Casimir Pulaski Day:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfEk...
Lying back and kickin your feet up
Yeah for marine species WoRMS is the place to go. Maybe GBIF will have it for terrestrial fauna?
Fucking soy right strikes again
Yeah, the correct answer (according to my taxonomist supervisor) is “you should cite all of them” but no one does. I think in my work I’ve tried to make sure any in-text references get authorities but I’ve not bothered with tables etc.
The metal trap is definitely real - I have three elder brothers and the oldest is a big metalhead so it basically took until I got to uni for me to develop any of my own taste
This guy thinks there wasn’t any blood in There Will Be Blood
This could’ve been a core part of my music intake as a teen… instead I just listened to Minutes to Midnight 1 billion times… a wasted life…
