Tuesday, May 5, 2015

60. Why don’t gulper eels get hungry?


Food is scarce in ocean depths, for no water plants and few creatures live there. So fishes’ meals are few and far between. Gulper eels and viperfish have large, stretchy stomachs that can expand to fit any victim that passes. Another deep-sea fish, the black swallower, can swallow and digest a fish twice its own size.

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