@WAtlFish

Entomologist, fish nerd, and illustrator.

 Yale University
watlfish.com
Joined July 2015
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Schmidt Ocean@SchmidtOceanSep 3
#DeepWonders science team located 25 cold seep ecosystems and discovered 20 suspected new species. They also encountered abandoned fishing gear and trash — an important reminder that humans have an impact in places they’ve never seen or visited before.
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Nick Volpe
@nvolpewildAug 4
My brain cannot comprehend this!! 🤯 These incredible newly described fish are NOT SEAHORSES but have evolved a similar shape and behaviours! Nature is the BEST! 💙
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@physorg_comAug 3
A seahorse-shaped fish long mislabeled in museum drawers is not a seahorse after all: just seven specimens over 65 years point to a separate branch with the seahorse body plan evolved twice. @ConversationEDU phys.org/news/2026-08-museum…

New museum find shows nature can't stop inventing seahorses

At first glance, it looks exactly like a seahorse. It has the same horse-shaped head tilted down from the body, the same curled, grasping tail and, in the males, a fully enclosed pouch for brooding...

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Snowy Grouper #DeepWonders
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An ultra-rare slit-shell #DeepWonders
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Neobythites monocellatus, first time filmed alive #DeepWonders
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A rare spikefish Hollardia hollardi #DeepWonders
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Sweet looking armored Searobin. Could be Peristedion imberbe but the pectorals are very spotted. #DeepWonders
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Symphurus marginatus #DeepWonders
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Bathypterois bigelowi, it appears #DeepWonders
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Nettastoma melanura #DeepWonders
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A phycid hake Urophycis but not U. cirrata while is shown to occur here. Which hake with a dark dorsal tip occurs off Trinidad/Tobago? #DeepWonders
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Tinselfish just laying on the botton but swam away eventually #DeepWonders
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Dibranchus atlanticus #DeepWonders
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Prognathodes guyanensis and Pristigenys alta #DeepWonders
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Possible a Decodon with some corals and stuff blocking our view #DeepWonders
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Another interesting fish #DeepWonders
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Heteropriacanthus #DeepWonders
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Ostichthys trachypoma #DeepWonders
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The stunning living animal of Lyria leonardi #DeepWonders
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Two Blackbar Drum (Pareques iwamotoi) #DeepWonders
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