Charlie Underwood

Charlie Underwood

Jul 13, 2016

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Wot no fish?

Sorry for not being able to do any updates here for a while. I have been in Montenegro supervising some student projects, and did not even get a chance to get to the fish market whilst I was there. Before I went Clive brought some new specimens for me to look at and use. I have started to look through these and there are some really exciting new specimen from the deep seas of Scotland. I also had a look at a fossil Chimaera fin spine that the Natural History Museum had obtained from Morocco- it is monstrous and if scaled to modern species would give a fish of maybe 4 metres long. 

So in the meantime here is a picture of a Balkan lizard orchid from mountains near the Montenegro-Albania border.

 

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The chimaeras (ghost sharks and spookfish) are a group of often deep sea fishes related to the sharks and rays. Unlike sharks, chimaeras have large, continuously growing tooth plates. These tooth plates have a very different structure to the teeth of sharks, or indeed any other fish. Within the teeth are sheets, rods and 'beads' of hard material that forms the cutting and biting surfaces. We shall be investigating the structure and development of these teeth and relating it to teeth of sharks.

Blast off!

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