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2023-04-21 16:53:25 Snailfish

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Scientists photographed a snailfish swimming 8,336 meters below sea level near Japan, making it the deepest recorded fish ever caught on camera.

Scientists dropped an autonomous “lander” camera into the Izu-Ogasawara Trench near Japan and filmed the snailfish.

Izu-Ogasawara Trench is located in the western Pacific Ocean, on the boundary between the Philippine Sea Plate and the Pacific Plate.


About

It is also called a sea snail and it is a deep-sea fish.

There are over 400 known species of snailfish, and they range in size from just a few centimetres to nearly a meter in length.

They are Elongated, soft, tadpole-shaped fish with loose and scaleless, though sometimes prickly, skins.

They are well adapted to life in the extreme environment of the deep sea.

Snailfish are found in cold water in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, Arctic and Antarctic seas. Open / Comment

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2023-04-21 12:08:05 Eurasian Otters

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Three Eurasian Otters were recently spotted in the Neeru stream of the Chenab catchment in Jammu and Kashmir.

About

Eurasian Otter is a semi-aquatic carnivorous mammal.

Scientific Name: Lutra lutra
It has one of the widest distributions of all Palaearctic mammals.

Its range covers parts of three continents: Europe, Asia, and Africa.
In India, it occurs in northern, northeast, and southern India.

It lives in a wide variety of aquatic habitats, including highland and lowland lakes, rivers, streams, marshes, swamp forests, and coastal areas.

In the Indian sub-continent, Eurasian otters occur in cold hill and mountain streams.

Conservation Status

IUCN: Near threatened

Wildlife Protection Act, 1972: Schedule II Open / Comment

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2023-04-20 20:10:56 The fungus, Chondrostereum purpureum, is known to cause Silver leaf disease in plants, especially in species of rose families.

However, there were no reported instances of this fungus infecting human beings from any part of the world Open / Comment

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