The specimen Fedortsov placed at the edge of his boat looked like a bloated, slimy gray blob.
Are you chopping aliens heads for views?
I always knew they were somewhere around, someone else commented.
Smooth lumpsuckers have a high water content in their tissues and round, bulbous bodies.
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But what about the viral fishs extremely swollen appearance?
The high water content in its body does not explain its uniquely bloated look, the expert said.
When their swim bladder expands rapidly, fish can often puff up unnaturally and look very strange.
However, this is not the case for this fish becauseAptocyclus ventricosusdoes not have a swim bladder.
There is no swim bladder to puff up!
I assume this is just how a large, freshly caughtAptocyclus ventricosuslooks, which is pretty cool to me!
He suggests that the fishs unusually swollen appearance may be due to something it ate.
They can stick themselves to rocks with this sucking disc and stay in place in rough surf.
He said: The smaller male protects the eggs until they hatch.
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