Can you guess what this is?
Bizarre marine Creature!
Can you guess what this is?
A dead fish
Matt
That's a long nosed chimaera. Hariotta raleighana Deep water fish--not something you'll see diving! They are usually brought up by trawlers.
Last edited by drdiver; 02-05-2007 at 01:36 PM.
When the North California fishery crashed in the 1940s, everyone in Monterey wondered where the sardines had gone, Ed Ricketts, marine biologist and colleague of John Steinbeck had the answer, "They're in cans."
Guidance on what fish to eat may be found here
We have a winner!
Well done Dr.
Bugger i thought i had that one in the bag.
Matt
Darn ... I thought it was the Medium-Nosed Chimaera. Tough call, there was nothing in the picture to give it scale ...
More rare sea-animals
strange
Raymond
Oh, those were hilarious!
Someone has way too much time on their hands. Very well done pics. I only just have enough patiance with photoshop to resize pics so they must be very calm people.
Matt
Oh yeh, we get hippo crabs around here all the time, only the ones here are bigger ...Wow, that is some amazing work!
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