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Approved by kickstarter! Preorder a Lamprey, Hagfish, or set of both so I can make them into enamel pins with these designs:
Both will glow in the dark. For the Lamprey it’ll be glowy teeth, for the hagfish maybe the entire pink base color
Kind of a strange question for everyone but I'm curious.
What is your favorite fish? Like do you have a fish that when you see it on TV or whatever you're just like... Fuck yeah!!!! It's my boy!!!!
For me it's Sturgeon. Idk why every time I see a sturgeon I just lose my mind I think they're so fucking cool. I got to pet one once and nearly died of happiness.
So what's your favorite fish?
Day 11 of Mermay! Do you recognise the kind of fish she is? I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about one of the most beautiful creatures in God’s creation: the hagfish. Here are some choice quotes on the wonderful characteristics of the hagfish: They are the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column The skin is naked and covers the body like a loosely fitting sock
Instead of vertically articulating jaws they have a pair of horizontally moving structures with tooth-like projections for pulling off food
Its skin is only attached to the body along the center ridge of the back and at the slime glands, and is filled with close to a third of the body's blood volume, giving the impression of a blood-filled sack When captured and held, e.g., by the tail, they secrete the microfibrous mucus, which expands into up to 20 litres (5¼ US gallons) of sticky, gelatinous material when combined with water If they remain captured, they can tie themselves in an overhand knot, which works its way from the head to the tail of the animal, scraping off the slime as it goes and freeing them from their captor Seriously hagfish are one of my favourite animals and I want you all to love them as much as I do. Please take a moment to appreciate hagfish today.
It has come to my attention some people want to get me started on the lampreys
Lampreys are a member of the infraphylum Agnatha, meaning they are “jawless fish.” They literally don’t have jaw bones. Instead they have horrific, nightmarish mouths that look like giant, tooth-lined plungers.
They prove just how fake the term “fish” really is. Scientifically, we can only consider something a clade if it includes a common ancestor and ALL of its descendants. (This means that it’s not a scientifically valid group if all of its descendants aren’t in it.)
So, what does that mean? Well. If our jawless fish friends, lampreys and hagfish, are fish, that means every single Gnathostome is a fish.
Gnathostomes are… jawed vertebrates.
As such, tuna, alligators, frogs, raccoons, cats, and people are also fish.
I’d like to draw attention to this tag, because I’m a nerd
They are right! There IS no such thing as a fish! Sharks and trout, for example, are both considered fish, but trout are MUCH more closely related to humans than they are to sharks, making “fish” an invalid classificatory group (and don’t even get me started on lampreys)
Some transparent deep sea images!(part 1)
I fucking filled with goop
help me
hurr hurr I'm a human body hurr hurr I'm gonna solve all my problems using mucus