Archive for the 'Fish' Category
Can you guess the common name designated to the animal pictured to the right?
Here are some facts about the critter:
Found in Antarctica
Has watery-jelly like flesh
Lives in the deep part of the ocean
Image (c) of newscience.com
Bony fish have a swim bladder, a gas filled sac. The swim bladder originates as part of the belly. The swim bladder aids in creating an equilibrium with what is going on inside the fish and the surrounding water.
Some fish have a bladder that is part of the respiratory system. It even creates a drumming [...]
People often wear shark’s teeth around their neck. But, what is the significance and how do they get them? As the internet research states a sharks tooth symbolizes virility. I am not going to get any further into that aspect of the question. To each his or her own.
Here is some information on the rest [...]
Sharks really do have a sixth sense.
It is the electrosensory organ that we spoke of with the hammerhead sharks. The electrosensory organ is called the ampullae of Lorenzini. Sounds intimidating, but, it is really just a funky jelly filled canal that starts near the nose and helps them find food under the sand and figure [...]
It really feels like a phenomenon – especially when Poets.org is also celebrating Shark Week!
Here is a good one from the site by Isaac McLellan (poem “The Bluefish“):
The weaker tenants of the main
Flee from their rage in vain,
The vast menhaden multitudes
They massacre o’er the flood;
With lashing tail, with snapping teeth
They stain the tides with blood.
Do [...]
The hammerhead shark has evolved the interesting looking skull cap to accommodate its extra collection electrosensory organs. All sharks do have these electrosensory organs, but, the hammerhead has a bit more than the average shark species. The electrosensory organ are useful for traveling far distances in the open ocean. It is like a internal GPS [...]
In honor of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel I decided to post a different shark fact each week.
Today…What is the fastest shark species?
The mako shark is the fastest shark. It can get up to 20 miles per hour (or faster when being chased by an enemy). The mako shark can naturally move as fast [...]
The Atlantic wolffish (Anarhichas lupus) may look rather frightening, but, the fish will not harm you unless it is out of water. This is rather understandable since it is out of its natural habitat. It prefers to live on rocky bottoms of the ocean floor in very deep, cold waters. Interestingly enough, they have high [...]
Numerous websites will all tell you the same thing: the blobfish is the ugliest animal in the ocean. And, yes, it could be debated, but my opinion is the only one that counts here.
So, here is some information about the ugliest animal under the sea:
The blobfish lives off the coast of Tasmania and Australia.
The body [...]
Basically, there is a very high demand for the fins of sharks in China for a soup. The current practice is to cut off the fins off sharks and toss the body back into the ocean.
The shark does not grow a fin back like a seastar would regenerate an arm.
The shark will not be able [...]
