>>Very Strange Fish *IDENTIFIED*<<

[Red Eye Racer]

Holy crap,.. HE'S HUMAN!!!!

 

[Mopar Muscle]

Cuttle fish....my bird eats their bones.

 

[Famine]

Originally posted by ExigeExcel
reason being?

OMG! Famine has made a mistake! he said,'one one,' instead of,'on one.' I am shocked! Please don't take this is as a blow to your pride it is just the first time a mistake of yours has come to my attension.

"Alcohol's a drug and drugs are bad, mmmkay?"

White PTFE chopping board + turmeric = yellow PTFE chopping board..

 

[Michael K]

Originally posted by Famine
"Alcohol's a drug and drugs are bad, mmmkay?"

White PTFE chopping board + turmeric = yellow PTFE chopping board..

Never measure turmeric in the palm of your hand while cooking, either.
Skin + turmeric = yellow skin for 2 days.

 

[Famine]

I tell you what though, turmeric is a proven anti-cancer drug. So eat curries!

(for reference, turmeric has been shown to inhibit angiogenesis - the process by which tumours create their own blood supply from your own vascular system. Without an adequate blood supply, tumours can only grow to ~2cm in diameter, and find spreading very tricky indeed)

 

[milefile]

Originally posted by HIGH ON LIFE
well after finding that picture i still dont know how big they are but are you sure thats a cutting board? it could be a mistreated conncrete floor because it doesnt look like wood or any other chopping board???sSo it could be bigger?!

It's a plastic cutting board. I bit the phot was taken in a resturaunt kitchen, they all use plastic.

 

[Zrow]

Originally posted by milefile
If I caught that fish I'd cut the line and try to forget about it.

God, would I ever. I'd go straight home.

 

[Rue]

It's a juvenille Spookfish Rhinochimaera pacifica

The Pacific Spookfish has a long, flexible snout, small eyes and smooth tooth plates. It has two dorsal fins, the first is short-based and tall with a strong spine. The second is long-based and low.

This species has a long caudal fin, the upper lobe of which has a row of fleshy tubercles.

It is brown above and grey-brown below. It has a white snout and black teeth.

The Pacific Spookfish grows to over 1.2m in length (without the caudal filament).

This species is found in scattered localities in the Western Indian and Pacific Oceans.

View a map of the collecting localities of specimens in the Australian Museum Fish Collection.



The best photo I could find...

 

[Solid Lifters]

A Spookfish, huh? Good name for it.

 

[HIGH ON LIFE]

Wow thats very ironic.

 

[boombexus]

How did you finally find this info out Chaser?

Wonder if they are any good to eat?

 

[Dorifto]

Oh ya I bet they taste awesome

 

[Pfffssshhh!]

Originally posted by Solid Lifters
A Spookfish, huh? Good name for it.

Man, I was thinking of the same thing...

 

[PoeticSoul952]

Originally posted by Famine
In English it's a "Coelacanth". It's been estimated at 135 million years old (the species - not each fish!).

It doesn't actually swim either - it uses all it's fins to FLY through the water. Seeing a coelacanth in motion is absolutely mesmerising.

I searched that in the Yahoo Image search, and found nothing that even remotely resembled that thing. You sure your right Famine? (maybe I didn't look long enough)

 

[Klostrophobic]

My theory is that picture was take 1.2 million years ago. It's an extinct species.

 

[Crayola]

Originally posted by neon_duke
Off the top of my head, I'd say it's a cuttlefish. W#hatever it is, it's definitely an evolutionary throwback.

Its like half squid half fish (i can tell by the ink and stuff) Maybe its a photoshop fish?

 

[Rue]

Originally posted by Crayola
Its like half squid half fish (i can tell by the ink and stuff) Maybe its a photoshop fish?

Read the thread before you post. It's not Photoshopped, but it wasn't quite what I said before. It's one of these...

Atlantic spearnose chimaera, Rhinochimaera atlantica

Sorry!

 

[Michael K]

Chaser fan:

Are you sure? I'm standing by my original post, its a long nosed chimaera.

Check the link and scroll down about 1/2 the page.

Chimaera photo

 

[supra229]

I think Michael K is correct although it could be something else.

 

[Famine]

Originally posted by PoeticSoul952
I searched that in the Yahoo Image search, and found nothing that even remotely resembled that thing. You sure your right Famine? (maybe I didn't look long enough)

I'm not totally sure that the first "A" isn't actually an "O"... And chances are that Americans would drop the first "O" out completely (it's actually a ligated oe), as they do with foetus and oestrogen.

But:
http://images.google.com/images?q=Coelacanth&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en - for Coelacanth

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=Coelocanth - for Coelocanth (where it asks if I meant "Coelacanth")

 

[240Z freak]

Can anyone guess as to the purpose of the pointy thing on the top of the head of the first fish? What about the stuff that looks like black hair on the tail of it?

BTW, Michael K's link to that Chimera stuff is the first thing on the internet thats made me say "Holy ****!" in a long while.

 

[Crayola]

Originally posted by chaser_fan
Read the thread before you post. It's not Photoshopped, but it wasn't quite what I said before. It's one of these...

Atlantic spearnose chimaera, Rhinochimaera atlantica

Sorry!

Lol yeh I know I replied after I read the first post instead of reading 5 pages, is still pretty hetic looking.

 

[Darin]

Originally posted by Famine
I'm not totally sure that the first "A" isn't actually an "O"... And chances are that Americans would drop the first "O" out completely (it's actually a ligated oe), as they do with foetus and oestrogen.

But:
http://images.google.com/images?q=Coelacanth&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en - for Coelacanth

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=Coelocanth - for Coelocanth (where it asks if I meant "Coelacanth")

Damn, I heard them Coelocanth's are huge. I wonder whats the average size of the thing.

 

[Rue]

Originally posted by Michael K
Chaser fan:

Are you sure? I'm standing by my original post, its a long nosed chimaera.

Check the link and scroll down about 1/2 the page.

Chimaera photo

Here's what I got from the Florida Marine Research Institute...

Hi,

Would you please ask the person that sent you the picture if the fish is available?
I am really interested to verify if it is actually Rhinochimaera atlantica (Gulf of Mexico). There is the possibility that if it was caught in another locality, it might be Harriotta raleighana. But, in order to be 100% sure I need to see the specimen.
Please let me know. Many thanks for sending the picture.

Sincerely,

Dr. Ramon Ruiz-Carus

Ichthyology Collection Manager
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Florida Marine Research Institute

 

[Mopar Muscle]

Poronounced "see - leh - cat'' I watched a program on the television about them once.