Dissection of a greenland shark |
A few weeks ago a big greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) was caught as bycatch in a trawl fishing for shrimps in Kattegatt, on the Swedish west coast. Since the meat is toxic the shark wasn't s...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:47:00 GMT |
Mysterious fin! |
Last week I got an e-mail from two sport fishermen who had been fishing on the west coast of Sweden, quite near the Norwegian border. They were fishing for Atlantic mackerel when a fin showed. They ma...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:06:00 GMT |
New goblin shark items added to my collection |
Sometimes I get to add new goblin sharks to my collection, which is always nice. This time it's a figurine from the game Animalkaiser. It came with one of the cards as well Now I just want all the ot...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:09:00 GMT |
Oceanic Anglerfishes |
I recently got a fintastic book called Oceanic Anglerfishes written by expert Theodore W. Pietsch. I started to read the book and suddenly discovered that "maybe I don't need to know how many fin rays...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:06:00 GMT |
New goblin shark cards from Animal kaiser |
I still want these cards and to play the game! This is an update from the blog from the 7th of January 2009 of the Animalkaiser cards. Index of all 8 series.
Serie 1
Serie 2
Serie 3
Serie...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:39:00 GMT |
An other report of goblin sharks from Mid-Atlantic ridge |
While googling for a reference referred to in the paper I blogged about yesterday, I found this paper (this link leads to the full paper which is a word document) Insufficiently studied fishes of the ...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:45:00 GMT |
Report of goblin sharks from Mid-Atlantic ridge |
I just received av paper from a friend called New Findings of Rare Fish Species from Families Mitsukurinidae (Chondrichthyes), Muraenidae, Lophiidae, Macrouridae, and Psychrolutidae (Teleostei) on Rai...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:39:00 GMT |
Malibu shark attack (was Goblin shark attack) |
On the 28th of April 2008 I blogged about a movie called "Goblin shark attack". It's now soon to be shown in the US on Sci fi (or Sy fy as it soon is going to be called). On the 25th of July you can w...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:24:00 GMT |
When you thought I was finally done: more sharky items! |
I thought I was done, but I still find new stuff in boxes and cupboards. Also, I HAVE bought a few new things as well...Like this sharky radio. You can have it in the shower and it will even float in ...
Posted by on Sat, 02 May 2009 03:38:00 GMT |
Goblin shark dissection |
Through one of my sharky mailing list I just got this information: One male Mitsukurina with 3.15 meters and 99 kg was captured off Rio de Janeiro at 700-1000 m. The dissection video with analysis of ...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:56:00 GMT |
