Tag: fish
Over the weekend an unsuspecting fisherman in New Jersey hooked a pacu, a disgusting fish with human-looking teeth. It’s a really fucked up fish and I hate looking at it. The pacu is a South American fish that’s related to the piranha but instead of having razor-like teeth, it has blunt, humanoid teeth for chewing […]
The Wall Street Journal profiled seventh- and eighth-grade students of the Upper East Side’s Ella Baker School, where a math teacher named Michael Paoli had them raise a tank full of tilapia. The students cared for the fish all year, learning about science and math in the process. Now, the fish are teaching the students […]
A study by Sherri Mason, professor of chemistry at SUNY Fredonia, analyzed samples of water taken from the Hudson River off the coast of Manhattan last fall and confirmed that the river is full of of microplastics — as much as 62,000 particles per square kilometer, WNYC reports. Microplastics are pieces of plastic from everyday […]
The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on earth, reaching a full seven miles below sea level. For a long time scientists believed the furthest regions of the trench were too harsh for life to exist, but it turns out life will find a way and this snailfish is the deepest living creature ever discovered. Living […]
In real life, Nemo’s dad “would have to start behaving as a female just a few hours after Nemo’s mom was eaten by a barracuda.” That’s because his species clownfish (of the genus Amphiprion) are protandrious hermaphrodites, modulating their gender as required to sustain their adult breeding pairs. Practical! This is just one of the many things […]
A goldfish named George is recovering in Melbourne after a successful “high-risk” operation at the Lort Smith Animal Hospital. “George had a quite large tumour on the top of his head that was growing slowly, and it was beginning to affect his quality of life,” Dr. Tristan Rich told Melbourne’s 3AW radio station after performing the $200 micro-surgery on the anesthetized […]
We just can’t fully accept that these aren’t real, living, stinking fish. Singapore-based Keng Lye created a series of three-dimensional sea creatures — “Alive Without Breath” — by painstakingly layering epoxy resin and acrylic paint in various containers. This technique was invented last year by a different artist, Riusuke Fakahori, but Lye takes things to […]
