BBC: Cute ugly creatures from the deep

[changhsu]

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Every time Sherman was hauled to the surface, the team had no idea what it would reveal. Caution was required.

 

"It's a lucky dip, but nothing is likely to leap out and latch on to you," says Alan Stewart, manager of Te Papa's fish collection.

 

"They suffer the bends coming up, and haemorrhage internally. If they haven't already been killed by the pressure changes, they're dying. It's brutal."

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3034520.stm

 

I thought the walking coffin fish was cute...

[offsprg01]

sorry not you post, the way the haul up those creatures so fast that they get the bends,. you'd think they'd want them alive so they coul study them. go figure.

 

but i have to agree those are some pretty cool looking fish!