When a male angler fish is born it is a tiny creature with no digestive system.
Puffer fish ocean floor design.
Right around this time last year news broke about the discovery of an amazing little puffer fish capable of creating elaborately designed crop circles at the bottom of the ocean as part of an elaborate mating ritual.
Amazing little puffer fish creates ocean floor crop circles.
It s almost impossible to catch a male angler fish.
For about 16 years nobody knew what made mystery underwater circles in the seafloor off a japanese island.
No it s not aliens of the deep it s actually pufferfish hoping to snag a mate a new study says.
Right around this time last year news broke about the discovery of an amazing little puffer fish capable of creating elaborately designed crop circles at the bottom of the ocean as part of an elaborate mating ritual.
Pufferfish mating may explain mysterious circles on ocean floor video weirdest animal mating practices.
Divers first noticed the 6 5 foot wide 2 meter wide circular structures near japan s amami oshima island about 20 years ago.
Little puffer fish creates ocean floor crop circles.
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Underwater crop circles from japan are an amazing form of biological art.
Smart news keeping you current pufferfish create underwater crop circles when they mate there is a chance that it s only the fine sand the females are after not the formations intricate.
They don t exist for very long.
But no one knew how these so called mystery circles were constructed or what was creating them until now.
Smithsonian institution s ocean portal.
Puffer has hook removed from mouth by scuba diver.
As such it must swim to find a female angler.
Scientists now know pufferfish make the formations to attract mates.
This fish creates large underwater crop circles to attract mate.