[HN Gopher] Photographer captures image of rare fish that walks ...
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Photographer captures image of rare fish that walks on its 'hands'
Author : bryan0
Score : 115 points
Date : 2023-02-20 15:34 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| hooverd wrote:
| You missed your chance, pal!
| gnudity wrote:
| [flagged]
| aklemm wrote:
| They taste a little like people too.
| luxuryballs wrote:
| I'm guessing he didn't try one breaded and fried? That would be
| an awesome culinary blog, guy follows researchers around and
| makes unique dishes with the various exotic creatures they find.
| pvaldes wrote:
| As any other fish that eats mainly other fishes, should be
| tasty, but is small and endangered also, so we shouldn't do it.
|
| I'm all about breeding <endangered life thing> massively even
| if we the price is to fry and eat a small amount of them as a
| result. Each extra dollar to conservation of obscure animals
| counts in large amounts, but frogfish reproduction has some
| characteristics that made very complicated to breed them. They
| can't breed in normal aquariums.
| gavmor wrote:
| > Of the red handfish, only 100 adults are thought to remain,
| while the Ziebell's hasn't been spotted in the wild since 2007.
|
| Well this is actually quite sad.
| werdnapk wrote:
| These handfish are related to frogfish which look pretty similar
| overall.
| quietthrow wrote:
| Bingo! Came here to post the same.
| GalenErso wrote:
| [flagged]
| sgregnt wrote:
| Well, if humanity is unique in this, we are the only species to
| make this far in the entire universe, that's pretty cool that
| we have all these technologies and we should keep going. If we
| are not unique. why worry about this? Not unique, then this is
| probably a natural path the same as going from a bacteria to a
| walking fish, just a few steps further down the evolution...
| brink wrote:
| What I'm about to say is controversial, but "better" is not
| possible without meaning, meaning is not possible without
| overcoming evil. Without man to interpret the meaning of it,
| there's no meaningful difference between a decimated world, or
| a world that sustains itself for trillions of years since
| there's no measure to tell anything what is "good" or "bad".
| TheRealPomax wrote:
| No, they didn't. Nice and glib statement, but there's _almost
| four hundred million years_ between those two things. Reasoning
| backwards and pretending it 's a straight line from A to B is
| kinda ridiculous: _all land-based non-arthropod animals_ went
| from "basically this" to whatever they are today. You want to
| talk about homo sapiens, you're gonna have to stop at
| hominoids. Anything before that and it's meaningless
| commentary.
| GalenErso wrote:
| My comment was not completely serious, as should have been
| obvious.
|
| Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't be the "akchually"
| guy.
| TheRealPomax wrote:
| Don't be that "I wish we never existed" guy in an HN
| comment, either =)
| hungryforcodes wrote:
| I upvoted you -- saw the joke :)
| wkat4242 wrote:
| That wouldn't work. WiFi doesn't work underwater!
|
| You wouldn't want to swim around dragging an Ethernet cable all
| day, right?
|
| For this reason it was inevitable for us to evolve asa land
| species.
| whitehexagon wrote:
| Unless those hands have evolved for communicating over all
| the fiber optic cables lying around down there.
| tjpnz wrote:
| See you in 400-million years.
| euroderf wrote:
| and the fish is thinking, OK they call me a missing link, but a
| missing link to _what_ exactly ?
| silisili wrote:
| Perhaps saw the last couple presidents and decided to go back
| to the ocean and forget that whole evolution thing.
| amelius wrote:
| So you see a fish walking and you take a ... photo?
| pvaldes wrote:
| It walks exactly like any other frogfish in the family
| Antennariidae.
|
| Updated: In fact is in a related but different family
| Brachionichthyidae. An endemism, endangered and interesting but,
| apart of this, is a typical member of the order Lophiiformes.
| contingo wrote:
| Many different groups of fish have independently evolved
| locomotion by "walking" on modified pectoral fins. One of my
| favorite examples are the bamboo sharks, among which are some
| pretty recently described species:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiscyllium_halmahera
| andrewflnr wrote:
| What's the selective pressure there? Is it enough that it's
| less energy intensive than swimming, and their environment lets
| them get away with it?
| pvaldes wrote:
| Is a benthic predator, so I would assume stealth.
| natch wrote:
| There's the reward conferred by being able to get further
| into shallow areas and take advantage of the additional food
| options they might offer over and above what's available in
| deeper water. Transition zones are abundant with life and
| thus food.
| brunorsini wrote:
| Always fascinating to see evolution arrive at similar outcomes in
| vastly distanced species / environments. Not only the "hands" are
| so familiar to us, the whole animal resembles an axolotl.
| Maursault wrote:
| All of the colors we see, whether accurate or not, are digital
| post-processing lies. It's just not possible to capture images
| with colors like that underwater. The image of the spotted
| handfish, however, does seem to be the most honest of the bunch,
| except for its saturated blue eye.
| wholinator2 wrote:
| Why not? I mean, in total darkness you're not capturing
| anything. But it looks like the human has a light for
| navigation, and the camera gear presumably has the ability to
| emit light. And that light interacts with the matter in the
| fish and some of it comes back to the camera. How is it any
| different that taking a picture with the flash on at night?
|
| And if you're referring to the water, can't you just seal a
| heavy duty camera and use that? Is there something about Deep
| water that desaturates all light that passes through even less
| than a meter of it?
| blakesterz wrote:
| The original photographer has some really cool galleries on his
| site.
|
| https://www.nicolaslenaremy.com/-/galleries/themes
| _puk wrote:
| Thanks for that. Some incredible pictures on there.
|
| It's an astonishingly fast website too, considering how image
| heavy it is!
|
| Not come across photodeck [0] before, but kudos to them. That's
| an incredibly pleasant website to navigate.
|
| 0: https://www.photodeck.com/
| nicbou wrote:
| "spotted handfish" is the Boaty McBoatface of fish names. Well
| done!
| bitwize wrote:
| If I had one I'd call him Mr. Splashy Pants. Or maybe Mr. Sandy
| Hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGqdjaz2Upg
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