Psychedelic Fish

Check out this new fish that they just found.  I think it was listening to The Dandy Warhols Come Down when they discovered it,  cuz they called it H. Psychedelica.   I can’t imagine what the H is for, though.

Here’s what the Associated Press says:

Like other frogfish — a subset of anglerfish — H. psychedelica has leglike fins on both sides of its body.

But it has several traits not previously known among frogfish, wrote Pietsch, of the University of Washington.

Each time the fish strike the seabed, for instance, they push off with their fins and expel water from tiny gill openings to jet themselves forward. That and an off-centered tail cause them to bounce around in a bizarre, chaotic manner.

The fish, which has a gelatinous, fist-size body covered with thick folds of skin that protect it from sharp-edged corals, also has a flat face with eyes directed forward, like humans, and a huge, yawning mouth.

Zia thinks the H. is short for HEAVY.

COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR