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Image credits: historydefined.net The BBC notes that even some objectively ordinary things (e.g., dolls, clowns, mannequins) can have creepy connotations. According to Dr. Coltan Scrivner, a ...
The record fish caught on Georges Bank in 1986 weighed 52 pounds! Commercial fishermen regularly report seeing wolffish up to 40 pounds. The wolffish is a wily adversary and should be handled with ...
Anarhichadidae, the wolffishes, sea wolves or wolf eels, is a family of marine ray finned fishes belonging to the order Perciformes.These are predatory, eel shaped fishes which are native to the cold waters of the Arctic, North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans.
The Lost River sucker (Deltistes luxatus), known as the c'waam (pronounced / tʃ w ɑː m / CHWAHM) by the Klamath Tribes, [5] [6] is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae. It is the only living member of the genus Deltistes .
cirrhosa enters the gill chambers of larger fish to suck blood. It bites mostly at the ventral or dorsal aorta arteries, and the blood is pumped into its gut by the host's blood pressure ; it does not need any special sucking or pumping mechanism to quickly engorge itself with blood, but simply uses its needle-like teeth to make an incision in ...
Most species are fairly small, with a maximum length of 15–40 cm (6–15.5 in), but some in the genus Acanthurus, some in the genus Prionurus, and most species in the genus Naso may grow larger; the whitemargin unicornfish (Naso annulatus) is the largest species in the family, reaching a length of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in). These fishes may grow ...
Zangroniz said studies only use a few species of fish and don't represent the more than 30,000 fish species that exist. She added pain is measured in mammals on the grimace scale, often seen in ...
Upon contact with the dorsal fin, the fish can deliver a very painful, potentially fatal, sting. The genus name means enemy in Latin. [31] Despite the obvious risks, one species of Inimicus, I. japonicum, is commercially cultured in Japan. It is used as a food fish there, and it also has applications in Chinese medicine. [citation needed]