True Facts About The Angler Fish

Found a picture of one of my old teachers.

Thank you for sharing my friend Lt Col Charlie Brown for sharing some facts about the Angler Fish
1. Looking like something out of a science fiction movie, the anglerfish uses a natural lure to draw its next meal nearer.
2. "The angry-looking deep sea anglerfish has a right to be cranky. It is quite possibly the ugliest animal on the planet, and it lives in what is easily Earth's most inhospitable habitat: the lonely, lightless bottom of the sea." Yes most fish and invertebrates have voted the Anglerfish to be the least attractive, most ornery and best ally in a fish fight :-)
2. Bizarre mating "The male, which is significantly smaller than the female, has no need for such an adaptation. In lieu of continually seeking the vast abyss for a female, it has evolved into a permanent parasitic mate. When a young, free-swimming male angler encounters a female, he latches onto her with his sharp teeth. Over time, the male physically fuses with the female, connecting to her skin and bloodstream and losing his eyes and all his internal organs except the testes. A female will carry six or more males on her body."
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Orlando Illi Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price CPT Jack Durish Capt Tom Brown CMSgt (Join to see) MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SGT (Join to see) Sgt Albert Castro SSG David Andrews Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Charles H. Hawes SGT Mark Halmrast SPC Margaret Higgins PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

Wow. Things I didn't know (but now do,) lol.