Behold the beautiful Black Seadevil:

[In_The_Wind]

Published on Nov 21, 2014
Deep-sea anglerfish are strange and elusive creatures that are very rarely observed in their natural habitat. Fewer than half a dozen have ever been captured on film or video by deep diving research vehicles. This little angler, about 9 cm long, is named Melanocetus. It is also known as the Black Seadevil and it lives in the deep dark waters of the Monterey Canyon. MBARI's ROV Doc Ricketts observed this anglerfish for the first time at 600 m on a midwater research expedition in November 2014. We believe that this is the first video footage ever made of this species alive and at depth.

[WinkyDink]

1. He has his own little miner's-lamp!

[In_The_Wind]

2. That is a female.

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The males are larger.(<-wrong) males are smaller

[WinkyDink]

3. Well!

[petronius]

4. Males are probably smaller, actually - more like a parasite...

In some species of anglerfish, the males are tiny, with simplified body features, and they live as parasites on the females. This is thought to be an adaptation to save energy, allowing the females to feed on whatever food is available. The males seem to have evolved for one purpose only: to find a female and deliver sperm.

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animal-guide/fishes/deep-sea-anglerfish

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[In_The_Wind]

5. whoops

Thanks for correcting my mistake.

[petronius]

7. As an aside, just in case, I was going for a humorous tone there

Pedantic corrections have no place in the Lounge...

(Maybe should have used a smiley.)

[In_The_Wind]

8. ...

With a little help from my friends, everything works out the right way eventually.

[WinkyDink]

6. Ya know, there's not a pair pictured, not anything, in fact, to show scale. So your pronouin

"correction" was more than a bit pedantic.

[In_The_Wind]

9. To say the very least ... an interesting pair of .

The male is circled in red.







[img][/img][img][/img] Perhaps, I should have enjoyed a spot of lunch before answering you. Low blood sugar makes me rather moody. Sorry.

[Quantess]

10. Cool creature!