fish facts – Coffee and Creatures

Is the Umbrella Conger Shady or Sheltered?

The umbrella conger eel doesn’t look like its name, but it’s well covered. From scrutiny, anyway.

It seems a bit unfair calling this a “rat-tail” fish when it clearly just has a thin, tapering tail. But naming its home after Hades

Its other names range from the cool ”fire fish” and “fan dancer” to the decidedly rubbish “turkeyfish”, but the PR’s still bad for almost all

It might sound like a make of car, but it’s actually a fish. It does have a cool racing stripe though. Not to be confused

My last two posts have had a bit too much sexy talk, so here’s the goblin shark to put an end to all that. Possibly

This Dalí-painting escapee lives up to 5.4 km* (3 miles) under the ocean in the abyssal zone, where it’s pitch black, freezing, with little to

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