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And from News of the Weird, via a friend:
News of additional bizarre species was released
recently from last year's deep-sea research voyage by
scientists from Australia and New Zealand (and
reported in News of the Weird in October). The oddest
this time was the "deep sea angler fish," because of
its sex life. According to Dr. Mark Norman, curator at
Museum Victoria in Australia: "The female is the size
of a tennis ball. It has big savage teeth" and "a rod
lure off the top of its head with a glowing tip to
coax in stupid prey." The male "looks like a black
jellybean with fins." The mating male bites into the
female's side, drinks her blood and gives her sperm.
Their flesh eventually fuse together permanently. Said
Norman, "They have found females with up to six males
attached." [Sydney Morning Herald, 3-22-04]
News of additional bizarre species was released
recently from last year's deep-sea research voyage by
scientists from Australia and New Zealand (and
reported in News of the Weird in October). The oddest
this time was the "deep sea angler fish," because of
its sex life. According to Dr. Mark Norman, curator at
Museum Victoria in Australia: "The female is the size
of a tennis ball. It has big savage teeth" and "a rod
lure off the top of its head with a glowing tip to
coax in stupid prey." The male "looks like a black
jellybean with fins." The mating male bites into the
female's side, drinks her blood and gives her sperm.
Their flesh eventually fuse together permanently. Said
Norman, "They have found females with up to six males
attached." [Sydney Morning Herald, 3-22-04]
