I'm from the government.
An' I only wanna he'p you!
Posted on 03/15/2009 10:07:08 AM PDT by 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
What the heck is that... creeeeeeeepy
What the heck is that... creeeeeeeepy
I just might not go back in the water after that one...
I'm from the government.
An' I only wanna he'p you!
Lamprey eel I think.
Geeez, I’ve never seen one of those before.
Thanks
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