Danio rerio (zebrafish) gill branches (46.7x) (2000 - James E. Hayden, RBP, FBCA)
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December 19, 2011
This is the source, not my original picture. But this is a Barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma). His head is transparent and the eyes are inside the transparent part so he can look straight up.
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November 23, 2011
October 21, 2011
Knee-deep wading is bliss for camels in Chad’s Archeï oasis, a canyon whose trapped waters hold a zoological surprise. Fertilized by beasts’ droppings, algae are eaten by fish that are preyed upon by an isolated group of crocodiles.
October 20, 2011
A school of juvenile marine catfish masses over the sandy bottom of Suruga Bay off Japan’s Izu Peninsula.
October 11, 2011
October 1, 2011
from national geographic:
Smaller fish keep their distance when a blacktip reef shark swims amongst them in shallow water in the Maldives.
September 27, 2011
September 27, 2011
from wikipedia:
Marine fish can produce high numbers of eggs which are often released into the open water column, the eggs have an average diameter of 1mm. This fish egg was collected in Tasmanian Waters.
September 26, 2011
from national geographic:
The clownish grin of a bridled parrotfish reveals its power tools: grinding teeth used to scrape algae from rock. Though sometimes destructive to individual corals, the fish’s efforts are mostly beneficial. Without them, algal growth could smother the reef.
September 19, 2011
September 8, 2011
All clownfish are born male. When they become adults, the largest, most dominant fish becomes a female, and the second largest becomes the breeding male. If the breeding female disappears, the breeding male (now the largest of the group) will become a female, and so on. In other species of tropical fish, when the ratio between males and females becomes imbalanced, dominant females may become males.
June 10, 2011
the leafy sea dragon is a fish closely related to the sea horse. its main defense mechanism is pretending to be a floating bunch of sea weed. it swims very slowly and its dorsal and pectoral fins (which do all the swimming), are transparent. it is found in the southern and western coasts of Australia.
May 4, 2011
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