PHOTO IN THE NEWS: New "Dracula" Fish Discovered

nationalgeographic ^ | March 11, 2009

[JoeProBono]

While he may not vant to suck your blood, the male fish seen above does sport spooky-looking fangs that have earned it the name Danionella dracula.

Researchers at London's Natural History Museum found several of the new species (bottom) in a tank of aquarium fish. Initially museum staff had thought the 0.7-inch-long (1.7-centimeter-long) creatures, caught in Myanmar (Burma), were part of an already known, related species.

"After a year or so in captivity, they started dying," museum scientist Ralf Britz told BBC News.

"When I preserved them and looked at them under the microscope, I thought, my God, what is this, they can't be teeth."

[JoeProBono]

[Ev Reeman]

My name is Count Blago and Im here to suck your blood...bla!

[mysterio]

Nice SEM photo. I took one of a fly’s eye one time. It was incredibly awesome to see the facets.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“When I preserved them and looked at them under the microscope, I thought, my God, what is this [...] dracula is thought to have lost teeth around 50 million years ago”

Scientists baffled.

[JoeProBono]

[nomad]

Should call it the Liberal Fish, it sucks the life's blood out of everything.

[JoeProBono]

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[Flycatcher]

Let's see now...

They initially misidentified the species, they only noticed the fangs after it died, and they failed to study the stomach contents....

Yet this is there conclusion:

Despite their ghoulish appearance, the fangs likely aren't used for feeding.

Sigh. The clownification of "science" continues apace...

[Flycatcher]

Oops. Put “their” for “there”

[JoeProBono]

[Flycatcher]

LOL!

[albie]

If Democrats were fish, this is what they’d look like. Same gaunt, doom and gloom look that I see on the face of every Obama Bumper Sticker laden Subaru hatchback driver I see.

[Daffynition]

Male dracula fish

Humph! Men!

[JoeProBono]

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[JoeProBono]

YIPES!!

[Daffynition]

[Upstate NY Guy]

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