Cool stuff! The dimorphism sounds like what you get with the anglerfish, where the males are about an inch and their lifecycle is basically finding a female (which grow up to a few feet), biting...
Cool stuff! The dimorphism sounds like what you get with the anglerfish, where the males are about an inch and their lifecycle is basically finding a female (which grow up to a few feet), biting them, then dissolving into a pair of testes for later use.
European eels have been a bit of a mystery, too. They go through 5 stages of development:
Hatch in the Sargasso Sea.
Larvae drift thousands of miles with ocean currents for months or years.
Transform into glass eels and migrate into freshwater
Grow into adult yellow eels over ~5-20 years in rivers and lakes
Their guts dissolve and they develop sex organs, traveling ~6000km over ~150 days across the ocean to the Sargasso sea with stored food.
Then they reproduce, but the specifics still haven't been figured out (afaik).
Atomic Frontier did a great video on European eels recently. It goes a bit more in-depth on their life cycle and has some interesting additional information not directly listed on the Wikipedia page.
Atomic Frontier did a great video on European eels recently. It goes a bit more in-depth on their life cycle and has some interesting additional information not directly listed on the Wikipedia page.
I didn't think I would be getting myself into such a deep dive of sex in sea, but here we are. Thank you for sharing about the eels. I had no idea! I ended up watching this video about the...
I didn't think I would be getting myself into such a deep dive of sex in sea, but here we are. Thank you for sharing about the eels. I had no idea!
I found this interesting and just goes to show you there’s so much out there we still don’t know on our very own planet. It inspires curiosity and wonderment in me. Hope others enjoy.
I found this interesting and just goes to show you there’s so much out there we still don’t know on our very own planet.
It inspires curiosity and wonderment in me. Hope others enjoy.
I was actually able to (hopefully) save one a few years ago. I was on the beach around the northern tip of Taiwan when I saw a bunch of people standing around in a circle taking photos of...
I was actually able to (hopefully) save one a few years ago. I was on the beach around the northern tip of Taiwan when I saw a bunch of people standing around in a circle taking photos of something. When I got there I saw one (I had no clue what it was, just some kind of cephalopod) that was changing color between white and purple but still moving. I picked it up and quickly got it into the water where at least it stopped flashing white. The only problem is that shell makes them crappy swimmers and the tide started pulling it back to shore so I picked it up and took it farther. Hopefully it made it out. Most of the people were just taking pictures but I heard one person say + realize I was trying to save it. I snapped some video of it once it seemed to not be fully stuck in the waves. Only later did I find out what it was but there is little to no info on those things.
Very cool! I'm glad you were able to help the little guy out. I don't think I've ever seen the color phasing in person, must have been something to see (but also sad since it was in distress).
Very cool! I'm glad you were able to help the little guy out.
I don't think I've ever seen the color phasing in person, must have been something to see (but also sad since it was in distress).
Cool stuff! The dimorphism sounds like what you get with the anglerfish, where the males are about an inch and their lifecycle is basically finding a female (which grow up to a few feet), biting them, then dissolving into a pair of testes for later use.
European eels have been a bit of a mystery, too. They go through 5 stages of development:
Then they reproduce, but the specifics still haven't been figured out (afaik).
Atomic Frontier did a great video on European eels recently. It goes a bit more in-depth on their life cycle and has some interesting additional information not directly listed on the Wikipedia page.
I didn't think I would be getting myself into such a deep dive of sex in sea, but here we are. Thank you for sharing about the eels. I had no idea!
I ended up watching this video about the Angulas(the baby eels) use in culinary world which I found fascinating.
The makers of the OP Octopus video also did an episode on the Eastern Eels which I thought was quite good as well.
I found this interesting and just goes to show you there’s so much out there we still don’t know on our very own planet.
It inspires curiosity and wonderment in me. Hope others enjoy.
Pretty wild! True Facts didn't have argonauts in their octopus video, though that one is 10 years old now, wow.
I was actually able to (hopefully) save one a few years ago. I was on the beach around the northern tip of Taiwan when I saw a bunch of people standing around in a circle taking photos of something. When I got there I saw one (I had no clue what it was, just some kind of cephalopod) that was changing color between white and purple but still moving. I picked it up and quickly got it into the water where at least it stopped flashing white. The only problem is that shell makes them crappy swimmers and the tide started pulling it back to shore so I picked it up and took it farther. Hopefully it made it out. Most of the people were just taking pictures but I heard one person say + realize I was trying to save it. I snapped some video of it once it seemed to not be fully stuck in the waves. Only later did I find out what it was but there is little to no info on those things.
Very cool! I'm glad you were able to help the little guy out.
I don't think I've ever seen the color phasing in person, must have been something to see (but also sad since it was in distress).
And they're cute, to boot!
Lovely lovely creatures :) thanks for sharing.
Tiny article with cute picture plus link to other "curious" https://divemagazine.com/marine-life/marine-curios-17-argonaut-or-paper-nautilus