April & May 2019
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and are hunted by sharks and killer whales in that time. They’re loners<br />
who spend most of their lives in crevices and under rocks on the<br />
ocean floor, coming out only to eat and mate. They reach depths of up<br />
to 12,000 feet and use their eight arms, equipped with harpoon-like<br />
barbs, for holding onto dinner — small crustaceans and worms. The<br />
males also deliver sperm into females via these arms, which is NSFD<br />
(not safe for Disney).<br />
Pelican Eel<br />
Nicknamed a “gulper,” this creature is not really an eel at all — it’s<br />
a scaleless fish named for a giant mouth that extends like that<br />
of a pelican to hold on to prey larger than itself. As far as fish go,<br />
this guy is a pretty poor swimmer. Instead, he relies on a pink or<br />
red, bioluminescent (aka glow-in-the-dark) tail that draws in<br />
mesmerized prey. Gulpers, which can be more than three feet long<br />
with a body that’s half tail, prefer to stay between 4,000 and 26,000<br />
feet deep, where sunlight cannot reach. They die after they mate.<br />
Ceratioidei Anglerfish<br />
The beady-eyed anglerfish, which can grow to 110 pounds, is a scarylooking<br />
beast. But the most horrifying thing is the way it mates. To<br />
get it on, males dig their teeth into a female’s belly until the bodies<br />
fuse permanently. They share a bloodstream, and all his organs —<br />
except for the testes — dissolve. Oh, and females have a natural,<br />
fleshy fishing rod that sticks out from the head and glows in the dark<br />
to attract prey. Try not to freak out — these guys prefer water up to a<br />
mile deep.<br />
The poor little Blobfish and, right, the Red-lipped Batfish, who looks<br />
mighty angry that someone smeared lipstick on him.<br />
Water Bear<br />
This nearly microscopic, eight-legged champ is ridiculously resilient.<br />
A healthy specimen will live only a few months, but water bears under<br />
duress will repeatedly defy death. After being dried out for 10 years,<br />
they come back to life. In fact, there’s not much they can’t survive.<br />
Radiation? No problem. Extreme temperatures ranging from -458<br />
to 304-degrees fahrenheit? Fine. Starvation? Ha. Interstellar travel?<br />
Child’s play. No kidding — scientists sent water bears into orbit for 10<br />
days in 2007, and 68 percent of them came back unscathed, becoming<br />
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