Saturday, March 08, 2014

Yikes!

Thanks to the video here, I went to look up the ocean sunfish, or mola, here. That's where I learned that the cartoonishly-harmless-looking-yet-Mini-Cooper-sized sunfish has long, clawlike pharyngeal teeth back in its throat, which are nothing compared to what a moray eel keeps back there.

I rather expect Geiger-esque oceanic fauna to come visiting after lights out tonight.
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12 comments:

CGHill said...

When an eel bites your nose and it fractures your toes, that's a moray.

Jennifer said...

Oh good! New nightmare fuel

Joseph said...

It looks like a roly-poly fish head.

Anonymous said...

Take a gander of the Goblin Shark before hitting the rack.

Pleasant dreams.

Windy Wilson said...

When a fish in the reef bites your finger with teeth, that's a Moray.

Anonymous said...

Ever seen the beak that octopus sport... yikes.

bluesun said...

Ah, much is explained. It's not the spice meatball sub that make you have such weird dreams, it's excessive wiki-wandering!

Weer'd Beard said...

Ocean Sunfish are REALLY cool critters, and yes surprisingly huge...tho most you see are only the size of a big-block V8 rather than a mini-cooper...but I've seen them too.

Still look up Monkfish, they're the king of pharyngeal teeth and Geiger-esque sea life!

Still they're tasty too!

Robert said...

Reading the part about how they get cleaner fish and birds to rid them of parasites, I had this vision of a deleted scene in The Little Mermaid where one of 'em sidles up to a seagull and goes, "Hey! Buddy! Little help here?".

Weer'd Beard said...

Robert, or maybe a future sequel to Finding Nemo!

Paul, Dammit! said...

When I had my lobster boat, we used to call them the Mongoloid fish. My old hometown in MA had a harbormaster that was famous for responding to a 'shark' siting by shooting his .38, reloading and shooting the shark again as it sat under the surface. My friends and I dragged a 2000+lb dead mola mola ashore a few days later. Died of acute lead poisoning. 12 .38 slugs got dug out of the poor toothless booger.

Crotalus said...

Good one, CG. How's this?

When-a da eel bite-a you face
'Cause-a you get inna his space,
"At's a Moray!