New fish just dropped>Scientist David Harasti never had any doubt what he would name the tiny orange creature he first spotted on a diving expedition in Papua New Guinea in 2003.>But it would take another two decades for Harasti and his colleague Graham Short to find the elusive fish again, study it, and officially designate it a new species. >Meet Solenostomus snuffleupagus, named after the beloved Sesame Street character, Mr. Snuffleupagus. >Short and Harasti have now written a new paper, published in the journal Fish Biology, describing S. snuffleupagus as a new species of ghost pipefish that makes its home along coral reefs, and disguises itself as red algae.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfb.70497
>>5127290seahorses and their relatives are underrated
>>5127290There are so many undiscovered species in Papua New Guinea that we will never know about because its inhabited by evil cannibal rapists
>>5127334the people who are driving New Guinea's animals to extinction are the logging industry and the other capitalists who want to "develop" the land for agriculture (more livestock, more palm oil plantations, yay).
>>5127336Here's a crazy opinion, both groups of people are bad
>>5127340Yeah, but the cannibal rapists don’t bother you if you don’t go there, the slavering palm oil faggots put that shit in everything.
>>5127342>if you don’t go thereokay, so how are we supposed to discover and study new species?
>>5127379cannibal < biologist <<<<<< zoidbergs companiesyou can fight the ooga booga nigger cannibals, but you cant fight against a multibillion company
Why do seahorses keep strwtching the limits of what it is to be a fish
>>5127853I'd argue pipefish are closer to being "normal" fish then seahorses themselves are.
