Alice's Project

Alice has a school project, so she picked this knarly but very interesting fish, we do research, as its fun.  We find a lot of very weird details.

This fish eats the entire prey because food is so hard to find they don't waste any of it.

The reproduction is pretty wild, see below. The male body fuses into the female.


Deep-sea anglerfishes employ an unusual mating method. Because individuals are presumably locally rare and encounters doubly so, finding a mate is problematic. When scientists first started capturing ceratioid anglerfish, they noticed that all of the specimens were females. These individuals were a few inches in size and almost all of them had what appeared to be parasites attached to them. It turned out that these "parasites" were the remains of male ceratioids.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish