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.
>>5127853they look like fish to me
>another pop culture referencesomeone should start making a list of all the basedentists who have participated in this retardation to publically humiliate them
>>5127853the're far more like a "normal" fish than you or I are, doofus.
>>5129102Scientists have gotten so lazy naming new species, especially paleontologists
>Post-mahorsealone
>>5130033it's not even pure laziness, it's intentional references to try and grab headlines and research grants, because the only funding scientists ever get is multibillionaires and governments that fund things they think are likely to make them look good, and wholesome chungus referencerinos are the easiest way to do that.
>>5127290I would like to add these guy to my aquarium
>>5130033All the good old descriptive names are taken up. So modern paleontologists just dig through latin and greek textbooks to find something novel. Tyrannosaur paleontologists are the worst, imo. Because everything is now named like a comic book villain.
>>5131995either that or it's given a Chinese name
>>5127290Lorax looking ass
>>5130237Maybe they wouldn't have to resort to such stunts if our pedo-in-chief hadn't slashed the NSF's already minuscule budget so that we can send more of it to bomb Iran
>>5132233This is an issue that long predates drumpf. Animal science has always been underfunded because it's not useful economically. Not that I really have sympathy for them though, they turned it into a circlejerk of muh credentials.
>>5127334>>5127340what's actually wrong with cannibalism anyway?
>>5127334the fact that papua new guinea is full of evil cannibal rapists is why those animals still exist and their habitats haven't been bulldozed to build a palm oil plantation.
>>5127334your resentment is just but slightly misguided friend, from the sounds of it these rapist cannibals are merely preserving a couple species.it's the capitalist butchers that eradicate entire eco-systems for profit. conservative estimates place the DAILY species extinction rate to be 20-80. thats 20-80 species wiped clean every fucking day. a vast majority due to corporate greed. (the natural extinction rate is between 10-100 per YEAR)so yea these rapists are keeping a few species from extinction as much as they are keeping us from discovering them, because if they were not there i fear the logging companies would give the natural inhabitants not even a milliseconds thought
>>5127290look up the ornate ghost pipefish
>>5132570bot
>>5127290If I were to discover this id name it The Yarn Fish because it looks like yarn hence the name.
>>5133810I'd call it the Hairy Seahorse
