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I’m ignoring the disasters in the headlines and think you should too, so here is something super cool:

Anglerfish, with their menacing gape and dangling lure, are among the most curious inhabitants of the deep ocean. Scientists have hardly ever seen them alive in their natural environment. That’s why a new video, captured in the waters around Portugal’s Azores islands, has stunned deep-sea biologists. It shows a fist-size female anglerfish, resplendent with bioluminescent lights and elongated whiskerlike structures projecting outward from her body. And if you look closely, she’s got a mate: A dwarf male is fused to her underside, essentially acting as a permanent sperm provider.

Good work if you can get it.

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  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Watched the video. Background music — hard to discern over the narration — kept tickling at me. Shortly before the end of the clip, thought: “Mussorgsky. Pictures at an Exhibition.” Watched through credits. Chuffed to learn I was right. Can still play “Classical Drop the Needle” and do well ?

  13. 13.

    NotMax

    @SiubhanDuinne

    Gotta exercise care. What with the weight of the arms on those old Victrolas, dropping the needle would be enough to shatter the disc.

    :)

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @NotMax:

    Yeah, but “Drop the Needle” sounds edgier and riskier than “Carefully and Gently Place the Needle.” And much more fun ?

  25. 25.

    oatler.

    I never understood why those deep-sea monsters could float ethereally in the water while we need special vehicles to avoid being crushed by kilotons of water.

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    @oatler.:
    Their bodies exert an outward pressure that balances the inward pressure. If you took these deep-sea creatures to the surface of the ocean, there’d be no inward pressure to balance the outward pressure, and their bodies might explode.

  27. 27.

    MoCA Ace

    @Amir Khalid:

    Sort of… actually all the gasses in their bodies are compressed by the weight of the water and at equilibrium. If the fish is brought to the surface all the gas in its cells would expand greatly and kill the fish.

    If my diving knowledge is correct for every 30 feet of depth you add an additional atmosphere of pressure. When humans are in a submarine at that depth the sub is physically resisting all that force since above anything 5 atmospheres for any duration does bad things to the human body. If we didn’t have the submarine all the gasses in our body would compress to such a degree it would kill us.

    And yeah… way cool video

  28. 28.

    pat

    Amazing video.
    Makes me wonder what “He” was smoking when “He” “designed” that.
    ////

  30. 30.

    Hunter

    Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is old news. I saw video of a male deep sea angler fish actually attaching himself to a female on a BBC nature series — I forget which one, but it might have been Planet Earth (which is better than ten years old) or Planet Earth II, both of which have segments on life in the deep sea.

    Still, it’s a nice break from what’s passing for “news” these days (i.e., the Trump Eternal Unreality Show).

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