Photy by Микова Наталия
Hello, could you get the doorbell please 🛎️ There are some fish trying to migrate upstream in the Netherlands that need to get past a boat lock🐟🐠 The lock is closed, so if you see a fish on the cam (yes, of course there's a cam!), press the button to let them through!
Amble, stroll or saunter over to tiny frying pan's post The Inky Depths #5: Fish That Walk! and learn how some fish stride this earth like a colossus (or maybe slightly less colossus-y, but still darn flipping impressive), and sometimes even flaunt the perfect red lip while they're at it.
Coat of arms of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, via Wikipedia
Joe in Australia on why beavers are fish in this super fun thread on Defector's ranking of state flags, included mainly because the comment contains the phrase "born through supernaturally heteropaternative superfecundation," which, iirc, we are legally obligated to include on the sidebar should it ever appear on the site.
Louis Renard fish illustrations
The Go-Go's: "a kinetic effervescence, with a pulse that shimmered and spangled"; Glorious psychedelic fish illustrations, many of actual fish; Remember those brights spots on the Dwarf Planet Ceres?; All of James Sowerby’s mineralogy compendium illustrations arranged by color; DIY hologram chocolate?; Resurrecting the art of China's dragon scale bookbinding
Hohonu Moana: Exploring Deep Waters off Hawaiʻi by NOAA Ocean Exploration & Research (cc by-sa)
More people have been to the Moon than the Hadal Zone.
Dive into motty's post of Neal Agarwal's awesome deep sea scroller to view unfathomable mysteries of the vasty depths, meter by meter
Anableps anableps by rubund (cc by-sa)
zamboni with the facts about giant diamonds, the Venus lander, and what this has to do with export taxes.
Can a fish see out of water? Wolfster introduces us to the amazing anablep, the fish whose eyes are bifocals.
Pogo_Fuzzybutt reflects on "one of the better" pizzas he's had -- the day began with a hiker falling off a cliff (Spoiler: don't worry, the hiker lives).
This video is about everyone in the world who isn’t Phil Fish.
It turns out the great video, "This is Phil Fish" posted by jklaiho was created by "Mefi's own" Peevish. (The transcript has been posted here.)
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