- Size: 2-50cm
- Weight: Unknown
- Lifespan: Unknown
- Habitat: Deep oceans(1500-4500m)
- Diet: Whatever can fit in their mouths
- Predators: NA
- It has no scales
- Its teeth protrude out of its mouth
- Can see light at the red end of the spectrum
- Only known creature to have chlorophyll in its eyes
- It makes its own red light
- Females have a barbel on its chin
- The female has very small eyes
- Male is a tenth of the size of the female
- The male also has no teeth, no barbel and no working gut
- They produce infared light, similar to that of a sniper’s to hunt its prey
- The young is transparent with eyes on stalks on top of its head
- Makes use of red bioluminescence to find its prey which can’t detect red light and escape
- Has teeth-like structures on its tongue
Really cool
Hey Apple!
I recently published an article about Dragon Fish facts as well. If you want to check it out, it’s: http://www.landoffish.com/dragon-fish-facts/.
Let me know what you think of it 🙂
Its ssssoooo cool!!