![]() Anglerfish’s “fins and other disused body parts wither away until the male is only what the female needs him to be,” which National Geographic assures us will eventually happen.īut they took a rare high-quality video of the elusive creatures, which showed off the female’s dazzling mane of long whiskered filaments and the bioluminescent lure, as well as her dead eyes and gaping mouth full of monster teeth. They did not see the female release an egg, which the male only exists now to fertilize. The Jakobsens recorded the pair for about half an hour, Science wrote. They noticed a weird little appendage on her belly, which of course was actually a male fanfin angler that will never be whole or independent again. Kirsten and Joachim Jakobsen were about to call it a day and surface Science wrote, when they spotted a female fanfin angler about the size of a fist. Somewhat appropriately, a pair of married deep-sea explorers took the video in 2016, from a submersible about half a mile underwater near the Azores islands in the North Atlantic Ocean. Until Thursday, that is, when Science published what it says is the first video of wild anglerfish engaged in their eternal hell of coitus.
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