biomedicalephemera: Teeth of the Wolf-Fish The wolf-fish is also known as the seawolf. A cold-water dweller that can survive all the way up to the top of Greenland thanks to a unique blood antifreeze it produces, the wolf-fish is currently facing conservation crises due to both over-fishing and being caught as by-catch when other fish and crustaceans are harvested. It’s not even like this fish is up near the top of the ocean or a threat to humans…they chill in the deep benthic zone, on the hard floor of the Atlantic ocean. Thing is, that’s also where wild clams & crabs live - and the wolf-fish loves it some crab. Bottom trawlers often catch them along with their intended targets, and this leads to a massive number of inadvertent deaths. The fact that people love to catch these ugly dudes for mounting, especially in their shallower habitats near the British Isles, really doesn’t help their survival as a species. You’d think being so ugly would help keep them OUT of peoples’ collections… The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and of the Teeth. Dr. Richard Owen, 1854.

biomedicalephemera:

Teeth of the Wolf-Fish

The wolf-fish is also known as the seawolf. A cold-water dweller that can survive all the way up to the top of Greenland thanks to a unique blood antifreeze it produces, the wolf-fish is currently facing conservation crises due to both over-fishing and being caught as by-catch when other fish and crustaceans are harvested.

It’s not even like this fish is up near the top of the ocean or a threat to humans…they chill in the deep benthic zone, on the hard floor of the Atlantic ocean. Thing is, that’s also where wild clams & crabs live - and the wolf-fish loves it some crab. Bottom trawlers often catch them along with their intended targets, and this leads to a massive number of inadvertent deaths. The fact that people love to catch these ugly dudes for mounting, especially in their shallower habitats near the British Isles, really doesn’t help their survival as a species. You’d think being so ugly would help keep them OUT of peoples’ collections…

The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and of the Teeth. Dr. Richard Owen, 1854.

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