Deep-sea movie catches the intimate hookup of alive anglerfish for the first time
Researchers mastering deep-sea anglerfish have long known concerning the unconventional mismatch between your kinds’ whiskered females and teeny-tiny men. But they’ve never caught video of alive fish mating — so far.
a freshly launched movie, caught by researchers Kirsten and Joachim Jakobsen during a five-hour diving in a submersible off the Azores into the mid-Atlantic, documents the intimate hookup the very first time.
Ted Pietsch, a college of Arizona teacher emeritus of aquatic and fishery sciences and curator emeritus of fishes at Burke Museum of healthy record and society, was actually surprised by the video footage. Continue Reading
