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afro_aficionado

Angler fish, one of the most iconic deep sea dwellers


SkyGazert

A female Angler fish. Their way of reproduction is... weird.


Gaara34251

Somehow i managed to get my biology degree wo knowing how they do amd i think i might just stay like that ty


Coffin_Dodging

Put it this way, the male has one purpose in life, and he stays attached (not how you think) for the rest of his life. Honestly, it's interesting but very weird, give it a Google:)


Freakychee

Parasitic fertilisation?


KylieJU

Yes. He basically melts INTO her and just becomes... her. It's not a pretty thing to see, either. 😳😱🤢🤮


SaisteRowan

This was NOT covered in my Zoology degree 😅 [edit : actually it might have been mentioned. Depression is wild, I've forgotten nearly everything]


KylieJU

Maybe the professor was too scared to put it up on the screen. 😂 I am also on meds for depression and you aren't joking. I'll walk into the room for something and then have no idea what it was. Or I'll forget one of the kids has an appointment, or I'll read a few chapters of a book, then go to read more and be incredibly lost when I can't even remember what I already read. I have to back track and all of the time and it's annoying af. 😔


SaisteRowan

We had a lecture and PowerPoint once during a reproduction module which included drawings of some different mammal penises. Shout out to the cat family whose males have penile barbs 😖


KylieJU

I know! Must be why the female wails during the process. 😬 Spiders and bedbugs mate by the male stabbing the female's body to inject sperm and it's called "traumatic insemination" 😂 I'm not sure which would be worse. The cat and their barbed penis, or the bugs with the stabby murder dongs.


Freakychee

Wouldn't this be under the specialised marine biology instead of zoology?


SaisteRowan

That's true - however, we often did some marine biology modules as well (didn't hurt to have a wider range of knowledge lol)


Freakychee

Makes sense. But it also makes sense they can't cover everything so you not knowing about something quite niche is understandable. Im just saying it's not your fault for not knowing. You know a lot about stuff others don't know.


KylieJU

Most likely.


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BingBongTimetoShit

booooooo


imapangolinn

I'd be pretty stoked to actually see and touch one if I saw one dead like this on a beach, they've always intrigued me since I was a young boy.


theWizzzzzzz

Also know by its proper scientific name Skariasfuk


SaltyAFscrappy

Put more effort into it than i was gonna. ‘It’s ya mom’.


z_1529

LMAO


Tiersie

I'm gonna go with it's one of the most reposted images on this sub for $400 Alex


lI_Simo_Hayha_Il

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish)


Umadatjcal

Christ! I’m going to have nightmares for weeks from those photos


CerealAndCartoons

Throw that thing in a bucket of alcohol or a garbage bag and freeze it and give it to your local university or natural history museum. That's a fantastic find!


Thomw606

No it's a bird


SunKing7_

I hope I'll never see anything like that flying lol


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Fun fact, its a female, male are much smaller, and when they mate, which happen really rarely because of the deepsea wideness, the male will stick anywhere on the female body and merge with her in order to share the genetic material for next generation, forming a new symbiotic being, an in some rare cases, there can be more than one male merging with the female... Just google "Angler fish mate" for weird animal femdom pics.


Bae_vong_Toph

Nah that's a plastic bag


Normal-Height-8577

That is a female anglerfish. A deep sea animal, and very impressive.


CoBudemeRobit

wow! such a cool fucking find I would taxidermy that shot if possible!


Beginning_Drink_965

It’s a Pacific Footballfish (which is a type of Anglerfish).


MKB-CroMag

No it's a horse


Mediocre-Sundom

It's a cat in a hat.


[deleted]

It's Thing 3. "Not a word to your mother"


BeachDuc

It looks like something from a horror film.


Flashy-Club5171

Close… a little indie film called FINDING NEMO.


miderots

Looks like a Xenomorph


pokemondudepoopyork

ANGLER FISH!


foolserrand77

It's the spider chair from dune


[deleted]

Aren't they pretty small? Like the size of a flattened grapefruit?


rhaspody1

Ask Nemo


J0KaRZz

Precursor to the Orphan of Kos.


mintmouse

Imagine not seeing it at all, it’s totally black in the darkness, but it’s attractor frond has those little white tips that look like floating morsels


TurtleDive1234

Is there a Ripley fish to fight it?


AccelRock

It's called an Angler fish, [but is it really a fish?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhwcEvMJz1Y) Fish has no biological meaning as a category. For example a salmon is more closely related to a camel than a hagfish.


O_gr

Pretty sure that's a horse.


OGFISHHH

Angler fish, it heals 22 at lvl 93 and above


GreyDaveNZ

Sea chicken. I thought everyone knew that?


15minutesofshame

Fishlight. Don't put our dick in it.


EntrepreneurDense391

I think it’s a deep sea angular living in the ocean depths.


DrWolfgang760

Black Angler. If you see it there it was already dying...


Other_Championship19

Does this mean Gojira has breached the ocean floor already.🤔💥


HiphopopoptimusPrime

It’s obviously a hand blob.


frenchhorn_empire

Dawg have you never watched finding Nemo?


K4raUL

Look for damaged spaceship nearby


SaltyGirl0024

Dori's friend...


Valholhrafn

The best fish.