Amazing little puffer fish creates ocean floor crop circles.
Fish design on ocean floor.
Divers first spotted the elaborate circular patterns spanning more than six feet on the ocean floor in 1995.
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Discovery of an amazing little puffer fish capable of creating elaborately designed crop circles at the bottom of the ocean as part of an elaborate mating ritual.
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They don t exist for very long.
This camouflage fish is known as inimicus.
But it wasn t until 2011 that scientists figured out the origin of these.
In certain tracts of ocean divers know to look for underwater crop circles ornate symmetrical patterns temporarily carved into the sandy sea floor.
Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet.
It s almost impossible to catch a male angler fish.
Even as articles bounced around the web it was still difficult to imagine how a tiny fish could create such a.
When a male angler fish is born it is a tiny creature with no digestive system.
As such it must swim to find a female angler.
From a different angle your can see the fish climb up a small hill on the ocean floor.
But no one knew how these so called mystery circles were constructed or what was creating them until now.
For about 16 years nobody knew what made mystery underwater circles in the seafloor off a japanese island.
Ocean temperatures in tasmania have climbed by nearly 3 6 degrees fahrenheit two degrees celsius since 1900 according to the met office hadley center for climate science and services.
Scientists now know pufferfish make the formations to attract mates.
Since 2003 ocean s floor has brought a new kind of fish store to the area.
The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur.
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As he crawls up his intriguing fins and scales are in full view.
What creates mysterious circles on the seafloor.