Ne znam jel misliš na Franken ribu? Sjećam se da je na telki bio horor film na temu te ribe. Ta riba može bočne peraje koristiti kao "noge" pa može hodati po kopnu. Nije oku ugodna i ima zube i naraste dosta velika.
Čak je osvanuo članak na internetu da je ribar u Velikoj Britaniji pronašao jednu takvu ribu mrtvu. Jako čudno što se riba tamo našla jer do nije nenjo prirodno stanište. Ugl zaključak članka bio je da je neki bogatun najverojatnije odlučio više ne imati tu ružnu ribu u svom akvariju te je pustio u rijeku. Ona, naravno nije dugo preživjela jer joj to nije prirodno stanište kako je iz tropskih riječnih voda...
Evo još nekih primjera:
Fanfin Seadevil
Viper fish (Mesopelagic - pronađena na dubini 80-1600 metara)
Otkrivena nova vrsta dupina
Ne da mi se prevodit pa evo vijesti na engl (ako imaš volje, prevedi i postaj dolje):
Australian scientists have discovered a previously unknown dolphin swimming in their nation’s southern waters.
Until now it had been thought the world had just two species of bottlenose dolphins. The common bottlenose, generally at home in offshore waters, and the more coastal Indo-Pacific species, are both found near Australia.
However, Macquarie and Monash university researchers, collecting genetic samples from what they thought were coastal dolphins, made an unexpected find. After DNA testing about 200 mammals off Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania for a population study, the scientists realised they were not coastal bottlenose dolphins at all.
“They look alike but they are genetically quite different,” Luciana Möller (above), of Macquarie University, said yesterday. “We were surprised.” The biologist received her PhD in Environmental Studies in 2001. She has been working in the field of cetacean behavioural ecology and mate selection for years, specifically, in Australia, 1997-2005; in the United States, 1995; in Brazil, 1990-1995; and Antarctic, 1994.
Such finds, said Dr. Möller, were “pretty rare”.
“Large mammals are not discovered very often. It shows we still have a lot to learn about how many marine species are out there. In the current biodiversity crises, when we are losing so many animal species, it is very exciting to find out about these unique Australian dolphins,” she said.
Möller suspected that the new species, and the previously known coastal bottlenose dolphins, probably separated “quite recently … in the past few million years”.
The DNA tests suggested the new species was probably more closely related to the Fraser’s dolphin, from the deep waters of the Pacific.
Möller said she believed the limited range of the new species meant it deserved special protection.
“Due to their coastal habitat, these dolphins are also more likely to face threats such as pollution, overfishing and entanglement in nets,” Möller noted.
Details of the discovery have been published in Molecular Phylogenetics And Evolution.
Reference:
Möller LM, Bilgmann K, Charlton-Robb K, Beheregaray LB (2008) Multi-gene evidence for a new species of bottlenose dolphin in southern Australia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. In press.
