Rocket Fish

Check out this thing. So I'm a big fan of sci-fi, but what you are looking at above is an actual fish - a part of our world, but as alien as anything I have ever seen.
I ran across this article the other day which described it and I found the pictures here
Thousands of salmon, tuna and other fish with electronic tags are revealing mysterious Pacific Ocean migration highways that may give clues about how to rebuild dwindling stocks, scientists said on Wednesday.
Marine experts also found 78 new species of fish in 2005 along with scores of other creatures ranging from a 3-metre (10 ft) rocket-shaped jellyfish in the Arctic to a tiny carnivorous sponge in the South Atlantic.
"Fish with chips" -- hi-tech implants that enable either satellite or seabed tracking -- were one of the breakthroughs to uncover ocean migration paths, scientists in the 73-nation Census of Marine Life (COML) said.
Amazing stuff out there in the oceans. Seeing this particular article was one of those relevatory moments, when you're reminded that theres things out there that you cant even imagine.
And I can imagine a lot of things ;)

One bluefin tuna swam the Pacific three times in 600 days according to satellite records -- an enormous 40,000 km (24,850 miles) or the distance around the world. That indicated that Japanese and American tuna stocks were one and the same.
Best Keanu Reeves impression here. Whoa. That is some stamina on that Tuna. I want that Tuna as part of my next Spicy Tuna Sushi Roll.



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