Man and Mystery v11 Freaks of Nature by Pablo C Agsalud Jr Rev 06.pdf

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A collection of intriguing topics and fascinating stories
about the rare, the paranormal, and the strange
Freaks of Nature
Volume 11
Discover nature’s weirdest and longest-lived creatures.
Jump into the world of lost civilizations and extinct animal kingdom.
Pablo C. Agsalud Jr.
Revision 6
Foreword
In the past, things like
television,
and words and
ideas like
advertising, capitalism, microwave
and
cancer
all seemed too strange for the ordinary
man.
As man walks towards the future, overloaded with
information, more mysteries have been solved
through the wonders of science. Although some
things remained too odd for science to reproduce
or disprove, man had placed them in the gray
areas between
truth
and
skepticism
and labeled
them with terminologies fit for the modern age.
But the truth is, as long as the strange and
unexplainable cases keep piling up, the more likely
it would seem normal or natural. Answers are
always elusive and far too fewer than questions.
And yet, behind all the wonderful and frightening
phenomena around us, it is possible that what we
call
mysterious
today won’t be too strange
tomorrow.
This book might encourage you to believe or refute
what lies beyond your own understanding.
Nonetheless, I hope it will keep you entertained
and astonished.
The content of this book remains believable for as
long as the sources and/or the references from the
specified sources exist and that the validity of the
information remains unchallenged.
Freaks of Nature
These plants and animals are REAL.
Unfortunately, most of them are either: UGLY, SCARY, or WEIRD.
And some have peculiarly UNIQUE abilities, too.
Angler Fish
Year 2000 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Anglerfish is the common name for more than
200 species of marine fish families Lophiidae
(anglerfish), Antennariidae (frogfish), and
Ogcocephalidae
(batfish)
in
the
order
Lophiiformes. Anglerfish are named for their
method of fishing for prey, using a specialized
spiny ray above the snout that serves as rod
and lure. The ray is a modified portion of the
dorsal fin and is tipped with a baitlike plug of
flesh. The old name for anglerfish is Pediculati,
or "small foot," which refers to the footlike
pectoral fins. The frogfish are camouflaged for
seabed life with a variety of bumps, knobs, and
flaps of skin, so that the fish resemble
surrounding seaweed. Anglerfish are found at
all depths of tropical and temperate seas and
are classified in two broad groups, anglerfish
and deep-sea anglers.
The frogfish has the habit of lying among rocks or seaweed or moving slowly across the
bottom. When lying motionless on the bottom, the angler dangles and wiggles its lure until
prey is attracted. When the lure is touched, the enormous mouth gapes, creating a vacuum
that sucks the prey within range of its back-pointing teeth; these stoke the food into the belly.
The goosefish, or fishing frog,
Lophius piscatorius, is a bizarre,
short-bodied fish with a large
flattened head, an enormous mouth,
dorsally situated jaws, and eyes on
the top of its head. Its large mouth
and expandable stomach allow it to
swallow fish as big as itself.
The goosefish is common in cold,
shallow waters of Europe and North
America. It is often 1 m (3 ft) long
and can be as long as 1.5 m (5 ft)
and weigh up to 23 kg (51 lb). The
transparent eggs are laid in masses
of jelly 60-90 cm (24-35 in) broad
and up to 10 m (33 ft) long.
Deep-sea anglers, family Ceratiidae,
are small inhabitants of the middle
depths of the ocean (500-2,000
m/1,640-6,560 ft). The females rarely
grow larger than a man's fist; the
males are much smaller. Most of them
are jet black or dark brown. These
anglers cruise slowly in the dark, cold
waters, glowing with lighted lures in
front of them. The light in the lure is
supplied by luminous bacteria shining
through skin that has lost its pigment.
In some species the lure is complexly
branched and filamented.
Shortly after hatching, the male seeks out a female anglerfish and clamps onto her body with
his teeth. He retains this hold for the remainder of his life, his mouth becoming surrounded by
the tissue of the female. His sustenance is supplied by his mate through vascular connections.
The parasitic male is commonly one-tenth as long as the female.

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