A catfish in Germany met its fate when it tried to eat a soccer ball that was floating in the river. Police spotted the catfish and say it’s the weirdest thing they have ever seen! “The catfish had evidently bitten into the ball and suffocated,” Bavarian police said in a statement. “Whether the fish was [...]
I stumbled upon this picture and I couldn’t believe my eyes! The stingray that this guy caught was of humongous proportions! But of course after reading up some more on stingrays, I found that this particular one was not as big as I had thought it was, but it was actually a very rare species [...]
I always love seeing and learning about interesting species of well…anything! But when I saw this YouTube video of the so-called “Guitar Fish” I was kinda shocked. For anyone that doesn’t believe in aliens…here’s you proof! Absolutely insane looking!
The strange-looking coelacanth is one of the oldest species of fish in the world. It is considered by many to be an actual living fossil. Known scientifically as Latimeria chalumnae, this fish was thought to have been extinct since the end of the cretaceous period over 65 million years ago. Fossils of the coelacanth have [...]
The Ocean Sunfish is the heaviest known bony fish in the world. Its average weight is a whopping 1 tonne and they mainly live in tropical waters. Ocean Sunfish’s diet consists of lots and lots of jellyfish. I wonder what it would be like to see one of these babies up close! Scary or exciting? [...]
The Umbrella Mouth Gulper Eel, also called the Pelican Eel, was discovered by Kyle Briggins. It is a deep-sea fish that is rarely seen by humans, but often gets caught if fishing nets. This is an eel-like fish and it is the only member of the genus Eurypharynx and the family Eurypharyngidae.
During deep-sea trawls off the Crozet Islands in the oceans off Antarctica, scientists found the bright pink eelpout Pachycara priedei, which is just one of six new fish species that were discovered at the time. This species is a bottom-dweller and therefore feeds on tiny fish or whale carcasses. The fish’s tiny eyes may pick [...]
I found this picture online, and apparently no one really knows what it is! It is very possible that this fish has been mutated due to high levels of pollution in the water. Strange, freaky, and I hope I never catch anything like that! Anyone have any idea of what it could be?
The Coffin fish is a bottom-dwelling fish that can be found almost anywhere in the world. These curious looking fish walk along the bottom of the sea floor using their leg-like fins to crawl around. Since they’re highly hunted by other predators, the Coffin fish have a way of defending themselves. Since they resemble the [...]
This interesting creature is dubbed as The Sea Pig and it lives on or just underneath the bottom of the ocean. These sea pigs are a type of sea cucumber which is a member of the same phylum as starfish and sea urchins. These species act sort of like a slug would on land. They [...]