Chimaera - NOAA Ocean Exploration
Chimaera - NOAA Ocean Exploration
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When it comes to #Halloween, deep-sea fish don’t mess around! Take, for example, this chimaera, at roughly 50 centimeters (20 inches), was seen during the 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration. Although the lines and dots on its face give it a bit of a “stitched together” appearance (ala Halloween!), they actually serve important purposes. The lateral lines running across this chimaera are mechano-receptors that detect pressure waves (just like ears). The dotted-looking lines on the fronta
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Wait to see the reflective eyes! Throwback to when a deep-sea submersible spotted a chimaera, aka a ghost shark, drifting in the waters of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. Chimaera use their pectoral fins like wings to seemingly fly through the ocean and have a reflective layer of cells behind their eyes that helps with vision in the dark waters they inhabit. Chimaera skeletons are composed of cartilage, just like sharks, but they “genetically diverged from their shark relati
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#Sharks sense movement through a jelly-like substance in pores on their noses, as does this deep-sea chimaera—they shared an ancestor, some 400 million years ago, but evolved in very different ways. Being able to "see" without eyes must come in handy when you live in the Midnight Zone—the part of the ocean where many organisms may have no concept of sunlight at all. 📷: #oceanx in #CocosIsland, #CostaRica. | OceanX
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