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Photographer captures image of rare fish that walks on its ‘hands’
- hooverd 4y agoYou missed your chance, pal!
- brunorsini 4y agoAlways fascinating to see evolution arrive at similar outcomes in vastly distanced species / environments. Not only the "hands" are so familiar to us, the whole animal resembles an axolotl.
- tabtab 4y agoFundamentalists are probably down there now trying to squish them out. "Blasphemy, fish can't walk!"
- blakesterz 4y agoThe original photographer has some really cool galleries on his site. https://www.nicolaslenaremy.com/-/galleries/themes https://www.nicolaslenaremy.com/-/galleries/themes
- _puk 4y agoThanks for that. Some incredible pictures on there. It's an astonishingly fast website too, considering how image heavy it is! Not come across photodeck [0] before, but kudos to them. That's an incredibly pleasant website to navigate. 0: https://www.photodeck.com/ https://www.photodeck.com/
- GalenErso 4y ago[flagged]
- brink 4y agoWhat I'm about to say is controversial, but "better" is not possible without meaning, meaning is not possible without overcoming evil. Without man to interpret the meaning of it, there's no meaningful difference between a decimated world, or a world that sustains itself for trillions of years since there's no measure to tell anything what is "good" or "bad".
- wkat4242 4y agoThat wouldn't work. WiFi doesn't work underwater! You wouldn't want to swim around dragging an Ethernet cable all day, right? For this reason it was inevitable for us to evolve asa land species.
- whitehexagon 4y agoUnless those hands have evolved for communicating over all the fiber optic cables lying around down there.
- sgregnt 4y agoWell, if humanity is unique in this, we are the only species to make this far in the entire universe, that's pretty cool that we have all these technologies and we should keep going. If we are not unique. why worry about this? Not unique, then this is probably a natural path the same as going from a bacteria to a walking fish, just a few steps further down the evolution...
- TheRealPomax 4y agoNo, they didn't. Nice and glib statement, but there's almost four hundred million years between those two things. Reasoning backwards and pretending it's a straight line from A to B is kinda ridiculous: _all land-based non-arthropod animals_ went from "basically this" to whatever they are today. You want to talk about homo sapiens, you're gonna have to stop at hominoids. Anything before that and it's meaningless commentary.
- GalenErso 4y ago
- tjpnz 4y agoSee you in 400-million years.
- nicbou 4y ago"spotted handfish" is the Boaty McBoatface of fish names. Well done!
- bitwize 4y agoIf I had one I'd call him Mr. Splashy Pants. Or maybe Mr. Sandy Hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGqdjaz2Upg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGqdjaz2Upg
- andrewflnr 4y agoThere's a really obvious analogue to "Boaty McBoatface", and "spotted handfish" is not it. Among other dissimilarities, note that the string "fish" only appears once.
- nicbou 4y agoIf you insist
- aklemm 4y agoThey taste a little like people too.
- werdnapk 4y agoThese handfish are related to frogfish which look pretty similar overall.
- quietthrow 4y agoBingo! Came here to post the same.
- contingo 4y agoMany different groups of fish have independently evolved locomotion by "walking" on modified pectoral fins. One of my favorite examples are the bamboo sharks, among which are some pretty recently described species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiscyllium_halmahera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiscyllium_halmahera
- andrewflnr 4y agoWhat's the selective pressure there? Is it enough that it's less energy intensive than swimming, and their environment lets them get away with it?
- natch 4y agoThere’s the reward conferred by being able to get further into shallow areas and take advantage of the additional food options they might offer over and above what’s available in deeper water. Transition zones are abundant with life and thus food.
- pvaldes 4y agoIs a benthic predator, so I would assume stealth.
- amelius 4y agoSo you see a fish walking and you take a ... photo?
- danparsonson 4y agoWhat would you suggest?
- Maursault 4y agoAll of the colors we see, whether accurate or not, are digital post-processing lies. It's just not possible to capture images with colors like that underwater. The image of the spotted handfish, however, does seem to be the most honest of the bunch, except for its saturated blue eye.
- wholinator2 4y agoWhy not? I mean, in total darkness you're not capturing anything. But it looks like the human has a light for navigation, and the camera gear presumably has the ability to emit light. And that light interacts with the matter in the fish and some of it comes back to the camera. How is it any different that taking a picture with the flash on at night? And if you're referring to the water, can't you just seal a heavy duty camera and use that? Is there something about Deep water that desaturates all light that passes through even less than a meter of it?
- vouaobrasil 4y agoYes, deep water adds a bluish haze to photos, which is caused by the fact that only certain wavelengths penetrate that far down compared to others. Most people postprocess to make photos at that depth appear as if they were taken in air, which IMO is harmless.
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- thaumasiotes 4y ago>> Is there something about Deep water that desaturates all light that passes through even less than a meter of it? > Yes, deep water adds a bluish haze to photos, which is caused by the fact that only certain wavelengths penetrate that far down compared to others Something's gone badly wrong here. By definition, the light has passed through less than a meter of water. How can you be talking about "only certain wavelengths penetrat[ing] that far"?
- Maursault 4y ago
- luxuryballs 4y agoI’m guessing he didn’t try one breaded and fried? That would be an awesome culinary blog, guy follows researchers around and makes unique dishes with the various exotic creatures they find.
- pvaldes 4y agoAs any other fish that eats mainly other fishes, should be tasty, but is small and endangered also, so we shouldn't do it. I'm all about breeding <endangered life thing> massively even if we the price is to fry and eat a small amount of them as a result. Each extra dollar to conservation of obscure animals counts in large amounts, but frogfish reproduction has some characteristics that made very complicated to breed them. They can't breed in normal aquariums.
- gnudity 4y ago[flagged]
- pvaldes 4y agoIt walks exactly like any other frogfish in the family Antennariidae. Updated: In fact is in a related but different family Brachionichthyidae. An endemism, endangered and interesting but, apart of this, is a typical member of the order Lophiiformes.
- gavmor 4y ago> Of the red handfish, only 100 adults are thought to remain, while the Ziebell’s hasn’t been spotted in the wild since 2007. Well this is actually quite sad.
- pseudotrash 4y agoThis is what Stewart Lee talked about: > And before, 400 million years ago, when the first fish crawled up onto the land. Our land. You get back in the sea. You finned c$nt. Coming up here, onto our land with your barely developed lungs and your hopes and dreams of a better tomorrow for fish. Get back in the sea. My name's Paul Nuttall of UKIP and I say we need to ensure the brightest and best fish stay in the sea and concentrate on making it aquatically prosperous instead of coming up here onto the land and beginning the process of evolution that will eventually lead to all life on Earth as we know it.
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