Tag: look at that nonsense

cyan-biologist:

eartharchives:

This is a Gulper eel, a deep-sea fish rarely seen by humans. It is not actually an eel, though it’s a close relative. The most remarkable feature about it its the mouth, larger that the entire body and loosely hinged so that it can open extremely wide and swallow fish that are bigger than the eel itself, which are stored in a very stretchable stomach.

These images haunt me in a good and a bad way, I’m curious from which expedition these are. They’re so old, but weirdly HD.