This is one weird-looking fish! It's six feet (2 meters) long, has tiny teeth, a long tail, and it doesn't have scales. Guy Marcovaldi captured video footage of the fish while working on the TAMAR project, which is involved in sea turtle conservation. The fish was found off of the shore of Brazil's Bahia coast. It was dead and floating near the water's surface.
At first the fish was reported as being a newly discovered species, but David Johnson, an ichthyologist with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, says that the fish probably belongs to a group of fish known as Jellynoses. Jellynoses are mysterious fish that live at the bottom of the ocean. Catch a glimpse of this large, gelatinous fish in this video!
Read more about this discovery on National Geographic News.
Check out pictures of more strange ocean dwellers on National Geographic Kids.
At first the fish was reported as being a newly discovered species, but David Johnson, an ichthyologist with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, says that the fish probably belongs to a group of fish known as Jellynoses. Jellynoses are mysterious fish that live at the bottom of the ocean. Catch a glimpse of this large, gelatinous fish in this video!
Read more about this discovery on National Geographic News.
Check out pictures of more strange ocean dwellers on National Geographic Kids.
Wow this vid is cool............................ Right : )
cool but wierd
Who's goin to eat tht thin. It's hidious like some of my friends. But still its KEWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yuck! :(
welll uhmm, that's definetly different. Cool though but very very weird. Hopefully when I grow up and I'm a Marine Biologist I'll see at least one of those.
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is creepy and sick! Especialy when the guy's hands started to play withthe pink thing!
wow that is a really weird fish but its AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
That fish is awesome.I hope its a new species. When Im a marine biologist, I want to see one.
wow i love this event the best. its cool,slimy,weird,its all the ingredients to.....
AWSOME!!!!! people might think im weird for this comment because im a girl but its cool.
That fish looks really cool.I can't beleive people found it.
HulaHaley you are not weird.
WOW THIS IS SO AWSOME =). HAHA WELL I THINK ITS 1 OF THE BEST FISH CAUSE IT LOOKS REALLY COOL. PEOPLE MIGHT THINK IM WEIRD, BUT THATS ME HAHA
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wow i wonder if that thing can sting..???? who know but i thought it was iteresting!!!
It can't sting, syates, it is probably not related to the jellyfish at all.
here are reasons why:
Jellynose:
*has a brain and
a heart
*is intelligent
Jellyfish:
*has no brain,
blood or heart
*is little more than
concentrated sea water
Those are the immediate differences between a jellynose and a jellyfish
weird and cool
Wow! It's really lucky that it floated to the surface instead of sinking to the bottom and getting eaten by crabs & such!
Wow, it is rally rally (really) different! :D
That`s quite a leviathon!
the human view of the unknown is an cool thing. we see something knew to use and want to find out what it is. sometimes our curiosity fascinates me.
I felt funny about it, it's kinda weird, it was too funny for me. It was crazy funny because the fish was being pulled out of the water. -kincho
Also, the fish was dying. - freed
So wierd?