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Hello everyone on this lovely Tuesday morning, this weeks extreme creature is the Anglerfish.
The anglerfish are fish of the teleost order Lophiiformes. They are bony fish named for their characteristic mode of predation, in which a modified luminescent fin ray acts as a lure for other fish.
“Sometimes they're caught and they have whole fish in their stomachs. If you touch the stomachs, it's quite squishy, for lack of a better term.” But don't worry too much about these deep-sea horrors:They're far too small to hurt a human, making their oversized teeth and misshapen bodies
They dangle a glowing or worm like bait called an esca, from a long lure that sticks out from the front of its head like a fishing rod. It then waits until a hungry fish comes to investigate and then wham it gobbles down its prey with lightning speed.
This fish sounds scary.
ReplyDeleteGood thing, that they're too small to go after humans.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention, they go a bit deeper than we can.
ReplyDeleteNancy.....Indeed
ReplyDeleteKaren......Yep
Chris.......That they do