New(?) Family of Fish discovered.

[Felixaar]

Came across this one in the paper, then found it on the internet. I'm into stuff like this. Fish article. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23925351/)

So, any crazy theories?

[I'm da Rogue!]

Lies. Nothing but lies.

That's the real family of the fish, and there's only one:


http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h24/solarturtle/familyphoto2.png

[Felixaar]

It always looks like you're about to shove Almight Salmon into Haruki's mouth in that pic.

However, I think we're operating under a different definition of 'Family'.

[reorith]

i have a crazy theory!

by abusing recombinant dna synthesis, castro created an army of fish that could access an ancient submerged temporal nexus which would allow him to go back in time to the mornig of november 22, 1963 and prevent the assassination of jfk, in turn preventing the assassination of lho which would allow he who hungers to walk the material plane once again.

[Serpentine]

Sooo cooool! I love science :smallbiggrin:

[Ranna]

we know more about space than we do the depths of the oceans so its likely there are many fish and other marine critters we dont know nothing about

Did you know there are fish called Chimera's that live in the deepest depths of the oceans...I like the name its pretty neat! and theres a dragonfish too which is scary looking!

[SurlySeraph]

Cool. If I kept reef fish and had a spare several hundred thousand dollars, I'd want one.

[banjo1985]

That is one freaky but cool-looking fish!

It could be a genetic mutant, nature creates some crazy stuff every now and again. Either that or it's the start of a new race of amphibians now all the old ones are being killed off!

[Sensate]

Tell me, is it me or does that fish have an OotS style face?

Look at it: dots for eyes, the mouth is an almost perfect line and the head is close to being a circle. Maybe I am spending too much time here lately.

Things like this have stopped fascinating me - now I find them simply beautiful. It's a confirmation of how complex and daring the nature can be through it's courses of evolution and what a powerful too the genetics is. No small wonder these creatures hadn't been found before; their flat body must be a remarkable tool of concealment not only from us humans, but more importantly, the other sea dwellers that are much more of a threat to their existence.

I love when people make topics like this one. Although I am always interested, I never search for news like these on my own.

[Trog]

Cool. It'll be neat to see if it holds up to DNA scrutiny as a seperate species.

Oh, and all of you with those Darwin fish on your cars TOTALLY need to add stripes to it now. :smalltongue:

[Zarrexaij]

This is so cool! It's pretty freaky though, freaky like the squid with human-like teeth.

[Serpentine]

Did you know there are fish called Chimera's that live in the deepest depths of the oceans...I like the name its pretty neat! and theres a dragonfish too which is scary looking!You might be interested to know that there's a thing called a hydra, as well. Looks like this:

http://www.eeob.iastate.edu/faculty/DrewesC/htdocs/hydra-OR2.JPG

And because I was curious, apparently this is a chimera:

http://www.morning-earth.org/Graphic-E/BIOSPHERE/BENTHOS%20IMAGE/B-chimeraSM.jpg

and this is a dragonfish:
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/872/35064831.JPG

Oh yeah, I remember those. They rock.

[Bag_of_Holding]

Tell me, is it me or does that fish have an OotS style face?

It's an Ootsfish, you see.

[Felixaar]

Hmm. Dragonfish looks a bit like an eel, doesnt it? We have two eels here, and adult and a baby (and probably a third I haven't seen yet). Theres a ton of fish and turtles as well, but eels! Kinky!

Out of curiosity, got any scale on the Hydra or the Chimera?

These things still amaze me, that for years people on the island have probably thought these fish were commonplace, only now to discover that they've been never seen by scientific eyes. Kind of like the fisherman that caught the Coleacanth.

[Serpentine]

The hydra is tiny. The Chimera I assume is, say, a couple of feet long, but I don't really have much to base that one. I think some of the photos had people holding one, though...

I love the story of the Coelacanth :smallbiggrin: If that thing's still around, who knows what else could be down there?

[Felixaar]

Wow, I was close with spelling. Just remember e before l, except when not describing that were thought to have died out sixty five million years ago.

Could only find the mythological beasts on google, but wikipedia saved my sorry ass as it usually does. The stuff on the Hydra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_%28genus%29) is realy quite fascinanting (three words I never thought I'd use in conjunction), with both its regenaration and the fact that it, apparently, does not age. I cant work out why the Chimaera's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimaera) share the name of a beast meant to be part one and part another (and sometimes part yet another :smallamused: ), though.

[Serpentine]

I don't think I got the spelling right, either.

Google says... yes! :smalleek: Huh. There you go.

The hydra was used in my zoology classes a lot. I think it has something weird, like a spinal cord or a brain or something.

[Felixaar]

I don't see anything like that in there, but Morphallaxis and Biological Immortality are enough for me.

[Bag_of_Holding]

The hydra is tiny. The Chimera I assume is, say, a couple of feet long, but I don't really have much to base that one. I think some of the photos had people holding one, though...

I love the story of the Coelacanth :smallbiggrin: If that thing's still around, who knows what else could be down there?

I've seen the real coelacanth before! It was during my trip to S. Korea. Quite scary looking though.

[SurlySeraph]

The hydra was used in my zoology classes a lot. I think it has something weird, like a spinal cord or a brain or something.

It's just about the simplest animal that has a nervous system. Plus they're cheap and easy to get.