Only 100 of these bizarre fish with hands are still alive

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/02/01/red-hand-fish.html

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[DasKleineTeilchen]

@pesco

Found exclusively in rocky reef areas near Hobart, Tasmania, the animals’ habitat is threatened by boats, development, pollution, and, of course climate change.

‘Literally off the charts’: global coral reef heat stress monitor forced to...

[generic_name]

@pesco

Previously: Handfish—“Pretty much exactly what they sound like”

Kristie

(also: Australia, damn, they got all the coolest weirdest species.)

[anothernewbbaccount]

Well some poor schmuck has to take the blame for doing this, so it might as well be me.

The Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) recently brought 25 of them into their care

So, the marine biologists were caught red-handed?

[theophrastus]

i blame this fish for our sucky decimal number system - damn you fish! we could’ve been duodecimal! (so many more convenient divisors)

[Hubber]

I suppose the guilty look on the fish’s face is because it is always caught red handed.

I’ll show myself out…

[SmilingDemon]