So the other night, my son asks me about this fish he saw in Finding Nemo. Normally I might not share such a tale, because it’s probably only memorable to our family – but the answers found from this innocent question were pretty impressive indeed.
You see, the alleged fish has a light on it’s head and huge fangs. I don’t know about you, but I’d never heard of such a beast. In fact, I thought it sounded like someone had been having a little fun in the animation room. I even made the mistake of mentioning that it might not be completely real!
You can imagine my surprise when I finally found a picture of the fish in question. That’s a freaky fish indeed, and it seems that very little imagination would be necessary to get this fellow looking like a scary fish!
So I looked around some more and found all sorts of information, including this little tidbit that seems to provide all the information you might need (sorry, link died). You see, apparently this vicious beast is the female of the species! And you thought human women were bad! Luckily they only live at depths of 1,600 to 10,000 feet!
The luminous organ on her head actually attracts her prey. She can vibrate the thing, too, presumably to attract prey if they’re blind. The worst part is that the male of the species lives only to bond himself to the body of the female and provide his seed so that the species may continue. He’s also a lot smaller and not quite as strange looking!
Comments
215 responses to “The Angler Fish”
I love finding Nemo and you all are ruinning it! I am trying to study the Angler fish for my project and you are all like this isnt an Angler fish. Just shut up and..its a an angler fish
HOW can u say that its a viper fish when that fish looks like a damn eel! but u know, the fish in finding nemo looked like a eel after all. no. all the people that reckon its a viperfish ARE all right! what would we know! cant really tell by a picture NOW can we? yeah!! thats what i thought!
very helpful site thank you
This was dumb because there are no pictures. I found this from a google search and I need pictures of angler fish for a science project in school. Do not expect me to visit this website again. Please inform me when you are going to get printable pictures of angler fish in this website. I would really appreciate if you add this feature in soon. Please forgive me for not filling in the URL box but I have no idea what that stands for so there was no way of me filling in that section of the website. I also filled in the name part incorrectly because I do not want you to track me down. I filled in the e-mail address part correctly so you can inform me of when you add printable pictures of angler fish in this website. That is all I have to say. Ta Ta for now
this website is so cool.
Thank you soo much for sharing this with people!!! I’m in 6th grade and I’m doing an under the sea project on the deep sea angler fish and I couldn’t find anything about it. So now at least i know sone stuff! ~Thanx~ LPB
this wab site is not gay and if it was how would you know red,you did it last nite or somthing and in fact I think that this site is pretty cool explaining wut fish it was off finding nemo when most of us get confused with other fish
My son loves this movie and the “freaky fish”, so thanks very much for the info on the “real thing”!
i don’t care about what the fish’s species is i just love the movie!
My son who is 9 is doing a report on viperfish I was hoping that I could get some help with info on this fish. please help.