Plate 48 from A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes, showing deepsea and oceanic fishes that are seldomly encountered by sportsfisherman. From Terra: The Member's Magazine of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Volume 22, No. 3. 1984.
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you should look up the ox-eyed oreo
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Nothing new last week because I've been mostly coding for a rehaul of my website. There are plans for merfolk imagery coming in the month, so here are some studies of aquatic life I've been doing: Greenland shark, frilled shark, ox-eyed oreo, and a feathered star.
When it comes to distinctions between life on earth and out of this world, we have a standard for what we visualize to be normalcy for earth. I've always found it fascinating that the characteristics we imagine to be alien could be found in the depths of our planet's oceans.
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