There are many mysterious creatures distributed in the ocean world, especially deep-sea creatures. Their shapes are strange and beyond people's expectations. People often mistakenly think that they are creatures from extraterrestrials.
Recently, in Taiwan, China, a fisherman caught a strange fish about 20 centimeters long, with an orange-red body and a shrimp-like dorsal fin, especially the gills on both sides of the head of this strange fish. It has thin whiskers and looks a bit like the legendary dragon head. What species is this strange fish with a "dragon head and shrimp body"?
According to local growth in the eastern Taiwan ocean According to experts from the research center, this is a rare deep-sea fish, the saw-thorn red bream, which is mainly distributed in the deep-sea waters between the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Its population is small, so it is quite rare.
For this strange fish, the saw-thorn red bream, netizens also joked: If the saw-thorn red bream's gills had no thin barbels, if the fish body were not red, if it were turned into a black fish body, it looks a bit like a scavenger fish. If you saw a fish like the sawthorn red bream, would you be surprised by its appearance?
The saw-thorn red bream is a deep-sea species with special habits
Among the deep-sea species, they have various strange shapes, and the saw-thorn red bream also has an extremely strange appearance. The thin whiskers on both sides of the gills and the red body of the fish are reminiscent of the legendary dragon head. Together with the shrimp-like shape of the dorsal fin, it is difficult to imagine that this is a fish. This appearance is enough to fill people with curiosity and imagination.
The saw-thorn red bream usually lives on the seabed and is also a benthic fish. They crawl on the seabed in search of food and are rarely caught, but they are accidentally caught by trawl fisheries. In addition, in order to protect themselves from predators, saw-thorn red bream can also camouflage themselves by changing color and deforming.
Although the population of saw-thorn red bream is generally small, capture records have been recorded from the southern tip of Japan to the waters around Taiwan, China. However, because the body of this strange fish is covered with a hard carapace, it has less edible parts and lower economic value. Few people specifically catch or purchase it. Therefore, this strange fish is rarely seen on the market.
Why are deep-sea species so strange?
Some people make fun of the strange shapes of deep-sea species. Since deep-sea species live in a dark environment, it is generally difficult to find each other. Since they cannot see each other, they can grow casually, so creatures of all shapes can have.
In fact, the reason why deep-sea creatures have all kinds of strange shapes is because they need to cope with the extremely harsh deep-sea environment. Compared with land and surface oceans, , the deep sea environment is colder, high pressure, lack of oxygen, lack of sunlight, lack of food, etc. In order to survive, deep-sea creatures must have unique body structures and adaptive features, such as huge teeth, long tentacles, light-emitting organs, etc. These features make them look more strange, but they can help deep-sea creatures survive in harsh environments. Survive the environment and find food.
In addition, deep-sea creatures will also adopt some special survival strategies such as color changing and deformation, which will give deep-sea creatures extremely high "morphological diversity" and make them look quite strange or ugly species, but These special forms and strategies are the result of long-term adaptation of deep-sea organisms to the environment, and are a reflection of their vitality to survive and reproduce in the deep-sea environment.
In short, the reason why deep-sea creatures have strange shapes is because they need to adapt to special living environments and adopt some special survival strategies to survive. This is nature's law of survival of the fittest. These unique characteristics and survival strategies not only make deep-sea creatures have high vitality and morphological diversity, but also provide us with rich scientific research materials for exploring the deep-sea world.