How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes

GUESS WHO GOT AN ANGLERFISH PLUSHIE FOR HER BIRTHDAY. 

YOU GUESSED RIGHT. 

I HAVE THE BEST GIRLFRIEND EVER. Coincidentally, she is also the best at making plush anglerfishes. 

scientificillustration:

n298_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

405. Corynolophus reinhardtii 406. Melanocetus johnsonii (Humpback anglerfish)

407. Liocetus murrayi (Murray’s abyssal anglerfish)

Oceanic ichthyology. v.22 atlas.
Cambridge, U.S.A. :Printed for the Museum,1896.
biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25480

ANGLERFISH INSTA-REBLOG!! 

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animalstalkinginallcaps:

THE SCARS OF YOUR LOVE REMIND ME OF US.

THEY KEEP ME THINKING THAT WE ALMOST HAD IT ALL.

THE SCARS OF YOUR LOVE, THEY LEAVE ME BREATHLESS.

I CAN’T HELP FEELING …

WE COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL!

ROLLING IN THE DEE-EE-EEEP!

perfect. someone should make a music video of this song to a bunch of clips of anglerfish. 

mad-as-a-marine-biologist:

Why deep-sea anglerfish have such extra-ordinary jaws

NICE fangs, shame about the bite. The oversize fangs of some anglerfish may help them to snap their weak jaws shut around prey, improving their odds of bagging a meal.

The dragonfish family (Stomiidae) go after large prey, and so have jaws that open wide. Closing them quickly is not easy, says Christopher Kenaley of Harvard University, since drag increases exponentially with jaw length, and rises even more if bulky prey are sticking out the front. What’s more, dragonfish jaw muscles are very weak.

Kenaley built a computer model of the jaws and found that shutting them around prey lying on its side took up to 1 second - more than enough time to allow it to get away. However, that dropped to just 125 milliseconds when the prey was lodged upright between the teeth.

Kenaley says the results suggest the fangs may not just impale prey as previously thought but help keep it in the best orientation to reduce drag on the jaw when it shuts. He presented the findings earlier this month at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.

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wnycradiolab:

nabokovsnotebook:

“Welcome to the cockeyed world of artist-photographer Lori Nix, as she takes us behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum. Nix’s diminutive dioramas unfold as microcosms—where the world of science collides with an overactive imagination, with amusing results. Nix fabricates these elaborate miniature scenes in her Brooklyn studio, forgoing any kind of digital intervention. Nix: “I’m greatly enamored with the Natural History Museum, and visit it as often as I can. My series Unnatural History is a look at the inner workings of the museum. The images feature animals and situations where the science and/or facts they represent are a little confused.” 

Description from Rebecca Horne’s (rather excellent) Discover magazine blog “Visual Science”

These are great!  And now I want to be friends with both Lori Nix and Rebecca Horne.

DEEP SEA ANGLERFISH INSTA-REBLOG.