Yeah, it’s just the remnants of the very elastic skin between the lower jaw bones

Three panel comic. Panel 1: person who has post-op bandages wrapped around their nose, nervously holding someone’s hand. Another speaker off panel says, “alright… let’s get these bandages off.” Panel 2: the person is gleefully looking at themself in a handheld mirror, their friends are overjoyed. Their new nose is a gigantic, elongated and pointed sword shape. Panel 3: they are jumping out of the ocean with a smile on their face, in unison with two swordfish who are also breaching the water.

~100 fish drawn in amateurish black and white doodles - mainly eels, catfish, and carpy things

~100 fishes drawn in amateurish black and white doodles. Lots of deep sea weirdos on this one, as well as gobies and cods and their ilk

About a hundred fishes drawn in amateurish black and white doodles. This has a lot of flatfish, as well as many spiny-finned fish

About 40 amateurish black and white fishes, bringing us up to #400z this is mostly very normal looking fishes, but there are some oddballs

Last really big milestone crossed in the Big Dumb Fish Project - Fish #400 ticked off the list! Theres some mismatches between the source I’m using and current taxonomy so I’ve still got “Pataecidae” as a group - very cool fish though so can’t really be mad, he reminds me of a Bosozuko biker.

Gotta be something like that, I'm just reminiscing that the only two (quite busted) specimens I found of them in my Masters Project were from a trawl at 860-1000m

Wasn't saying you should, just making people aware (and slightly salty to see this low-effort faux-science pablum become established here)

Eurypharynx just looooove to be at ~1000m don't they

Good to see the Discovery coming into port - gonna be my home for most of May!

That is good, however I guess I'd find a chimp-themed breastaurant stranger than an owl-themed breastaurant.

Massimo is a notorious content scraper from way back on Twitter, no part of this is "original"

Mr. Reese how do the in-universe owl people feel about the existence of Hooters?

Cleared and stained ofc

Gotta be a cowfish or some other ostraciid right?

Not the only gripe I have with this fish. Name too long, too many double letters. It will never fit cleanly into an Excel spreadsheet and I will never be quite sure that I've spelled it correctly. I'm no common name fan but can we just call this, like, "spotted pearlside" and be done with it?

A really quite pathetic looking specimen of a deep sea fish held on an upsettingly stained blue plastic glove. The fish has a big eye and a smushed face with a dark stomach, and the back half is spotted with regular dark clumps of black pigment and photophores.

Valenciennellus tripunctulatus was named by such a liar. There are way more than three puncts on that fish, I can see like 16 without even trying that hard. This is a callout post for Laurits Martin Esmark #LauritsMartinEsmarkIsOverDay

This would be a great gotcha in the alternate universe where he only got one term

Let he who has not Impaled cast the first stone

“Well Doctor, I think it all started when I was a fry…”

Such a shape

Friendship ended with bristlemouth

Now pearlside is the fish I see when I fall asleep

Kinda sad to realise that this isn't the fish I've seen the most of now, that honour has definitely passed to Maurolicus

The world's first one-dimensional animal

"Threat display" oohh I'm so scared of the ribbon made of water that doesn't even have a proper anus

Ahhh that’s cool

I had an extensive debate yesterday over whether Transformers are limited to the speed of the vehicle they’re mimicking when they’re in disguise. I’m still not sure where I stand.

My brother in Christ you are made of peptides

I looove Psettodes, what a little monster

That second picture really gave me a jolt of excitement about heading to sea again next month. Like hell yeah I’m gonna get to stand out of the way behind the CTD rosette 😍😍

Ahh yeah good point about the frequency & opportunity to delay by an orbit if necessary. Want a nice longitudinally-wide landing site.

Also I’m aware of the context and the current developments but lol at the idea of China being squeamish about dropping stages on land.

Soyuz 7K-T No.39 - Wikipedia

Ok but aiming for the bit of Pacific controlled by the USSR there is very very tricky. Overshoot and you're going to hit Japan, a US ally, undershoot and you're going to end up in China (which they were very worried about at the time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_7...

A crested morwong, a stripy fish shaped like a long triangle with a very high, spiny dorsal fin on the forehead, sits on a sandy bottom. Credit: Erik Shlogl via FoA

If loving you is Morwong, then I don't wanna be Morright