{"id":1215251,"date":"2025-02-15T07:41:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215251"},"modified":"2025-02-15T07:41:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:41:45","slug":"rare-deep-sea-anglerfish-spotted-in-the-shallows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215251","title":{"rendered":"Rare Deep Sea Anglerfish Spotted In The Shallows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Seen here looking like something a child would produce if you asked them to draw a nightmare, this <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2025\/02\/11\/black-demon-of-the-sea-caught-on-video.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is a video of a rarely seen humpback anglerfish<\/a> (<em>Melanocetus johnsonii<\/em>) spotted in shallow waters off Spain\u2019s Canary Islands. The fish typically lives some 1,500m (~1 mile) deep in the pitch-blackness, but this one was apparently surfacing to die, and, in the process, scare the sh!t out anybody who caught a glimpse. Mission accomplished! I can\u2019t believe this thing is even real, and I suspect there may be a door to hell left ajar somewhere at the bottom of the ocean.<\/p>\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LN41zsB2qZA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seen here looking like something a child would produce if you asked them to draw a nightmare, this is a video of a rarely seen humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) spotted in shallow waters off Spain\u2019s Canary Islands. The fish typically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215251\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekologie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}