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Offbeat News tagged with fish

Lunch? Coming Right Up: The Moment An Unlucky Fish Jumped Straight Into a Heron's Mouth
Offbeat  (tags: animals, herons, fish, environment, wildlife )

Cher
- 28 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
There can rarely have been a case of such bad timing. One moment this unlucky fish was swimming happily around in a lake in South Dakota.The next it had made an extraordinarily ill-judged leap into the air, perhaps hoping to catch a passing fly,
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British Cat Catches Local Train to Visit Penguins and Fish
Offbeat  (tags: domestic, cat, marine, fish, penguins, offbeat )

Jenny
- 49 days ago - pawnation.com
Percy, a six-year-old domesticated cat from the British city of Scarborough, hops the local North Bay Railway to a nearby marine sanctuary, where he spends the day watching the fish and penguins...
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Huge Fish Found With Green Turtle in Stomach
Offbeat  (tags: animals, fish, green turtles, environment, wildlife )

Cher
- 50 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A huge groper that washed ashore on the Queensland Coast of Australia may have become a victim of its final meal. The grouper was examined on the beach by veterinary pathologist Dr Ian Anderson.
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Four-Eyed Fish Born in Aquarium
Offbeat  (tags: animals, fish, environment, born, protection )

Cher
- 86 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A pair of rare four-eyed fish have been born in a British aquarium.
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Vicious Tongue-Eating, Blood-Sucking Parasite Found
Offbeat  (tags: parasite, environment, fish, blood sucking, discovery )

Cher
- 90 days ago - ecoworldly.com
The parasite, a type of a louse, is about 1 inch in length and survives on animal's blood by drinking the blood from a tongue artery. Paul Chambers, a marine researcher from the Societe Jersiaise, identified the parasite. Chambers described the isopod
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Donegal Trawler Crew Net a 'Beast' of a Sunfish
Offbeat  (tags: fish, odd, off-beat, interesting, unusual, bizarre, photos )

Angela
- 104 days ago - irishtimes.com
THE CREW of a Co Donegal trawler got a surprise catch of the day when they hauled up their nets to reveal one of the biggest fish they had ever seen.
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Anglers Mourn Benson the 29kg Fish
Offbeat  (tags: animals, fish, death, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat )

Cher
- 127 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Greedy carp the size of a dog thought to have died from overdose of uncooked nuts
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New 'Dracula' Fish Discovered
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, interesting, dracula, fish, scientists, discovery, zoologists )

Tom
- 273 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Named after Count Dracula, it is the only one of its kind to have bones which project through the skin, looking like real teeth. Scientists have described its features as "extraordinary" and believe it is one of the most interesting vertebrates to be iden
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African Lungfish (The Fish That Can Survive Outside Of Water For 4 Years)
Offbeat  (tags: odd, fish, amazing, lungs )

One
- 435 days ago - fishindex.blogspot.com
The African Lungfish or Protopterus annectens is a fish that can literally survive for years without water! This fish has a special organs that are as close to lungs as any fish in the world...
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The Longest Fish on Planet
Offbeat  (tags: fish, long, river, weird, fishing )

Djole
- 445 days ago - fun-genius.com
The Oarfish is reported to be the longest of all fishes. Reports say the fish can get up to 8m in length but fish of 17m have been reported.
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Lake Creature With 'Legs' Stumps Central Floridians
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, children, environment, fish, Florida, funny, humor, interesting, news, odd, off-beat, pictures, unusual )

Todd
- 493 days ago - news-press.com
Shawna Mitchell said she was fishing on Starke Lake in Ocoee when she pulled something strange out of the water.
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Singing For Sex: Even Ugly Fish Do It
Offbeat  (tags: animals, FISH, bizarre, SEXunusual, custom, culture, performance )

Suzybell
- 508 days ago - kdka.com
It's not exactly Tony serenading Maria in "West Side Story," but for all their homeliness toadfish also sing to attract mates.OK, singing may be a stretch; it's more of a hum. But it turns out to be useful, for science as well as the fish. Exploring how
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No Need To Eat Everything
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, weird, Fiji, fish, head, carnivorous )

Zivan
- 525 days ago - fun.ql4.org
<p>When fish-urchin is attacked and when she has nowhere to hide, she fuel her body with water. When big carnivorous fishes try to swallow such a ball, they ends tragically.</p>
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Stonefish (The Most Venomous Fish In The World)
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, fish, deadly, stonefish )

One
- 542 days ago - fishindex.blogspot.com
The poison comes from the 13 spines on it's dorsal area which release the venom from two sacs attached to each spine. The venom causes severe pain with possible shock, paralysis and tissue death depending on the depth of the penetration.
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Weird Fish
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, creature, fish, weird, underwater )

Zivan
- 591 days ago - fun.ql4.org
Weird and bizarre creatures from around the world.
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