Arctic mystery fish identified

CBC News ^ | Posted: Nov 15, 2013 4:53 PM CT|

[BenLurkin]

Nigel Hussey, a researcher who works with the Ocean Tracking Network, says the fish some speculated was a goblin shark is actually the mysterious "long-nosed chimaera" — mysterious because they're rarely caught.

[Two Kids' Dad]

The rare and mysterious Jimmy Durante fish. Awesome!

[Cyman]

It’s friggin Bill Maher!

[heartwood]

It must walk along the sea bottom on those limb-like fins, grazing with the undershot mouth.

But what does it do with that nose? Traffic cone, dunce cap...stir up the mud and suck in the little critters?

[heartwood]

Nice video clip 3/4 down this page, don’t know how to post it.

http://bogleech.com/bio-cart.html

[Conservative4Ever]

Stick it in everybody’s else’s business?

[skinkinthegrass]

Where’s my seafood sauce?***snickering***
Clarified Butter? ...or Whine & Cheese sauce?...

[skinkinthegrass]

Where’s my seafood sauce?***snickering***
the Moose is extra!...

[Lazamataz]

All in the eye of the beholder. For all we know, this creature could be considered a hottie by opposite sex members of the species. A real catch, so to speak.

I'd hit it.

[Maceman]

As if I had any doubt.

[al baby]

Looks like a Pelosisorus

[Ezekiel]

Has a certain Obamacare-BOHICA look to it.

[Oberon]

Looks like something out of a Lovecraft story to me. The teeth, the fleshy pectoral fin... nasty.

[mabarker1]

It's a Dorkfish!

[MWestMom]

Looks like a Pelosisorus

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Before or after the face lift?

[mabarker1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH6sE8RMUuU

[al baby]

During

[CurlyDave]

But what does it do with that nose? Traffic cone, dunce cap...stir up the mud and suck in the little critters?

The wisest man I have ever known, told me a long time ago, that whenever a creature has an exaggerated feature like that it "must have something to do with either eating or copulating".

[MWestMom]

So that’s what’s under there. Yeesh.

[Uncle Chip]

"long-nosed chimaera"

now extinct