<p>This undated image provided by seaphotos.com shows the face of a Histiophryne psychedelica, a highly atypical frogfish (Antennaridae) first described in 2009 from a handful of specimens photographed in Ambon, Indonesia in 2008. It has a vestigial, non-functional lure (illicium/esca) and probably traps its prey inside coral holes and crevices or within coral rubble. The unusual pattern is thought to mimic the appearance of several kinds of hermatypic coral, and while…
August 24, 2011
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It's a wild, wild world
Millions of unseen species fill the Earth
WASHINGTON - Our world is a much wilder place than it looks.