Fish Geekery

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for example:

You’ve got your nice beautiful speckled eels

You have wiggly poke-their-little-heads-out-of-the-sand friends!

Look!!!! This one looks like a puppy!!!!

You even have friends with fearsome teeth!! (feat. shrimp)

And they look funny from the front!!!!

But do you want to know the supreme kings among eels?

Ribbon eels.

Let me demonstrate.

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*screams multiply*

*blood curdling screams of the damned*

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hey everybody, welcome to the very first Wierd Biology Redux! 

so you think you want to know more about the Ocean Sunfish, or Mola Mola(molamolamola), hmmm? can’t say I blame you. they are pretty great.

so without further ado, let’s bring this ship back around and learn a few more facts about these majestic idiots and their relatives!

there are actually three seperate species in the Mola genus, including our old friend the Ocean Sunfish. These are: *DRUMROLL*

Mola mola, the Ocean Sunfish (big ‘n lumpy)

Mola ramsayi, the Southern Sunfish (sleek n’ pretty)

and Mola tecta, the Hoodwinker Sunfish (big n’ full of secrets)

the Ocean Sunfish and Hoodwinker Sunfish are about the same size, reaching up to ten feet in length and weighing up to two tons (BIG boys, absolutely enormous, 10/10). 

the Southern Sunfish is significantly slimmer and more obscure, though it also reaches lengths of around ten feet.

the Hoodwinker Sunfish was discovered only recently through genetic analysis. it is so named because it had been ‘hiding in plain sight’ for years, almost identical to the Southern Sunfish except for its size. 

(I disagree, scientists are merely unobservent. look at those pictures. those fish look nothing alike. they probably don’t even speak the same language. but do scientists care? nnOOOoo.)

ANYWAY back on topic, here’s some videos of Molas swimming around like adorable morons. I love them. 

and finally, we’ll close with a video that I really couldn’t figure out what to do with. look at it. who even does that? don’t do that.  

(it’s funny as shit, though)

anyway I hope you enjoyed our brief return to Mola Molamolamola today.