#i once described them as a rubber axolotl that you left on your car dashboard in the summer

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the mariana snailfish is. an alternate form of the axolotl

#i once described them as a rubber axolotl that you left on your car dashboard in the summer #and that’s what they are. #anyway the mariana snailfish has weird bones (notably it’s skull) with incomplete ossification all over the place #they’re top predators in the hadal zone and eat pretty much anything smaller than it #it’s a contender for the deepest living fish along with another species of snailfish that has only briefly been caught on video #dove talks #ocean #axolotl #i woke up wanting to talk about the snailfish. sorry #this is a goof. theyre very different species #they just look similar due to somewhat similar environments #the axolotls native habitat is an underground lake which can require some of the same adaptations as the deep sea #i could make this comparison with cave olms as well. they’re even more like snailfish! #snailfish 🤝 olms: no eyes no problems #fun fact about axolotls as well. they have teeth!