http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/09/24/the-jellynose-fish/ A blog about the weird wonderfulness of life on Earth Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:10:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.31 http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/09/24/the-jellynose-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:48:01 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=1377#comment-115 there making this thing out to be something worst than it is like at the top this fish turns in to snot when it dies meaning there is hardly any thing left after it decompose just teeth.

]]> http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/09/24/the-jellynose-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:55:56 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=1377#comment-114 Gelatinous substances are found in the sensory organs of all species.

]]> http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/09/24/the-jellynose-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:30:44 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=1377#comment-113 Could it not be that we are assuming its a nose because other creatures have a nose between their eyes. It could be to make up the mass of the fish, to be a substitute for a gas filled swim bladder, giving it a body density just less than water? It is in very deep waters, this would aid its ease in swimming.

]]> http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/09/24/the-jellynose-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:32:04 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=1377#comment-112 Or perhaps it starts out firm at the temperatures you see in the deep ocean (just a few degrees above freezing) and it melts on the way up . . .but no, it doesn’t have to be “for” anything, certainly. : )

]]> http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/09/24/the-jellynose-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:25:27 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=1377#comment-111 Well, it doesn’t have to be ‘for’ anything =D could be just a byproduct of calcified bone loss… I mean, why NOT have a jelly nose?

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