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Meet your new deep-sea bestie 🤗
The deep-sea anglerfish, Chaunacops coloratus, has a bulbous body and spiky scales, a shaggy lure dangling from its head, and foot-like fins that it uses to “walk” along the seafloor.
In 2012, MBARI researcher Lonny Lundsten and his coauthors described the first observations of these rare fish in their natural, deep-sea habitat. In addition to documenting these fish walking on the seafloor and fishing with their built-in lures, the researchers discovered that the fish change color from blue to red as they get older.
