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This may be old news, but dammit these things are weird.
This is the Goliath Tiger Fish, one of the many new and bizarre species recently found in the Congo River. It's closely related to the piranha, but a LOT bigger. They can grow to be 150 pounds and they hunt in packs, just like piranhas. Just imagine a school of 150 pound fish with teeth like that coming at you! The river is an evolutionary hot bed because of its raging currents and massive depth. Harsh environmental factors like these effectively isolate the river, essentially putting evolution into overdrive. I mean just look at these things!
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That one is known as the freshwater elephant fish. It uses its elongated snout to filter through sediment for food.
Also included in the bizzare bunch are the African Electric Catfish, the Airbreathing Catfish, and Lamprologus Lethops, a blind, depigmented cichlid
. Check out this website for more: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/3826/Overview#tab-Videos/06321_00.
Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/monster-fish-congo-missions/index.html
This is the Goliath Tiger Fish, one of the many new and bizarre species recently found in the Congo River. It's closely related to the piranha, but a LOT bigger. They can grow to be 150 pounds and they hunt in packs, just like piranhas. Just imagine a school of 150 pound fish with teeth like that coming at you! The river is an evolutionary hot bed because of its raging currents and massive depth. Harsh environmental factors like these effectively isolate the river, essentially putting evolution into overdrive. I mean just look at these things!
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That one is known as the freshwater elephant fish. It uses its elongated snout to filter through sediment for food.
Also included in the bizzare bunch are the African Electric Catfish, the Airbreathing Catfish, and Lamprologus Lethops, a blind, depigmented cichlid
. Check out this website for more: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/3826/Overview#tab-Videos/06321_00.
Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/monster-fish-congo-missions/index.html