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fig. 1 — Melanocetus johnsonii (user-generated content)
She grows her own lightbulb. That drooping stalk is a modified fin spine, and the bulb on the end is packed with glowing bacteria she farms. Small curious things swim toward the light. That is the last decision they make.
The male? About the size of your thumbnail. He finds a female, bites on, and never lets go. Eventually he fuses to her body and becomes a permanent set of gonads. ROMANCE 2.0!
Tags: bioluminescence, teeth, commitment
📡 Channel 1 — Fish That Glow 16 sites
- Lantern Fish Weekly New
- Barb's Bioluminescent Basement
- THE GLOW ZONE (now with tabs)
- Photophore Photo Album Hot
- Blue-Green or Nothing
- Squid With Headlights
- My Dad Saw A Glowing Thing Once
- Luciferin FAQ v2.3
- Cookiecutter Shark Homepage New
- Nightlight Of The Sea
- Vampire Squid Mucus Archive
- Glowing Bacteria Pen Pals
- The Dim Ones (underrated)
- Anglerfish Lure Gallery New
- Do Not Touch The Jelly
- Steve's Deep Sea Flash Shack New
🪨 Channel 2 — Wet Rocks, Vents & Trenches 14 sites
- Mariana Trench Fan Club
- Black Smokers Monthly Hot
- Hydrothermal Hank's Page
- Manganese Nodule Registry
- Abyssal Plain Appreciation
- Brine Pools: The Lake In The Sea
- Seamount Of The Week
- Challenger Deep Webcam (offline)
- Basalt & Me
- Cold Seep Society New
- The Continental Shelf Is Boring
- Sediment Core Sample Pics
- Puerto Rico Trench Ring
- Rocks I Have Seen
🚸 Channel 3 — Submersibles & Equipment 12 sites
Everything here has a hatch. Updated weekly.
- ALVIN Enthusiasts Ring New
- Bathysphere Nostalgia Corner
- Titanium Sphere Pricing FAQ
- ROV Tether Length Database
- Beebe & Barton Shrine
- My Homemade Submarine (DO NOT) Hot
- Viewport Acrylic Thickness Calc
- Ballast Weekly
- Sonar Sounds .MP3 Collection
- Trieste 1960 Photo Scans
- Grabber Arm Appreciation
- Pressure Hull Horror Stories New
🐜 Channel 4 — Invertebrates Of Questionable Character 12 sites
- Sea Pig Photo Emporium Hot
- Giant Isopod Feeding Log
- Yeti Crab Grooming Tips
- Sea Cucumber Defence Tactics
- Bobbit Worm Warning Page
- Salps Are Not Jellyfish
- Zombie Worm Bone Diner New
- Comb Jelly Rainbow Cam
- Xenophyophore: One Big Cell
- Deep Sea Sponge Farm
- Brittle Star Arm Count
- Nudibranch Colour Chart New
👤 Channel 5 — Member Profiles 14 sites
- Dr. Nemo's Other Page (fish only)
- Marlene's Kelp & Cat Page
- ~gordon/index.html
- THE PLANKTON KID New
- Captain Deb's Log Book
- Trawler Bob's Bad Day Stories
- Aquarium Guy 4000
- Nancy From Oceanography
- Cold Water Cathy Hot
- Barnacle Ted's Corner
- Deep Sea Dan's Podcast Vault
- The Sub Lady (retired)
- Erik's Under Construction Page
- Wanda's Whalefall Diary New
❓ Channel 6 — Miscellaneous & Unsorted 14 sites
The webmaster does not endorse and cannot explain any of the following.
- Sounds The Ocean Made
- Is The Kraken Real? (no)
- My Uncle Works On A Boat
- Free Screensaver (untested)
- ASCII Whale Collection Hot
- Nautical Knots & Also Recipes
- The Bloop Discussion Board New
- Why Is Salt
- Underwater Basket Weaving Ring
- List Of Lists Of Fish
- Guestbook Of Guestbooks
- Site Not Yet Written
- Broken Link (kept for history)
- 404 Fish Not Found
🦑 The Rest Of The Crew click to expand
VAMPIRE SQUID — Vampyroteuthis infernalis
BARRELEYE — Macropinna microstoma
DUMBO OCTOPUS — Grimpoteuthis
FANGTOOTH — Anoplogaster cornuta
‼ 5 Abyss Facts They Will Not Tell You On TV
- 1. It is snowing down there. Always.
- Marine snow: a constant drizzle of dead plankton, scales and waste falling from the sunlit world. It is the entire food economy of the deep.
- 2. Most of it glows.
- Roughly 3 out of 4 deep sea animals make their own light. Blue-green travels furthest in seawater, so nearly everybody picked that colour.
- 3. Red is the new invisible.
- Red light never gets that deep, so red animals are effectively black. Shrimp down there are the colour of a fire engine and nobody can tell.
- 4. The pressure is a piano on your thumbnail.
- At the bottom of the Mariana Trench it is over 1,000 atmospheres. The fish are fine. They just do not have any air in them to crush.
- 5. We have mapped less of it than the Moon.
- The abyss is the largest habitat on Earth and we are still finding new species with almost every dive.
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