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- The Real Fin Shady? Eminem makes fishy backstage demand
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- Rap star Eminem isn't Koi about making bizarre show rider requests, says Bob Meh...
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Bob Mehen on Friday 2 September, 2011, 10:16
- Weird fish of the week: Blob sculpin
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- This week's choice for water-dwelling weirdo status is the Blob sculpin, a visually unfortunate deep sea denizen whose depressed looking face will be familiar to many of us from photos that don't necessarily give the most truthful portrait of the speci...
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Bob Mehen on Friday 5 August, 2011, 9:41
- Weird fish of the week: Electric eel
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- When is an eel not an eel? When it's this week's weird fish, the Electric eel (Electrophorus electricu... (No votes)
Bob Mehen on Thursday 28 July, 2011, 11:29
- Weird fish of the week: The Smalltooth sawfish
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- This week's candidate for piscine peculiarity status is the familiarly freakish Sawfish (Pristis pectinata), subject of endless interest due to its remarkable rostr... (No votes)
Bob Mehen on Thursday 21 July, 2011, 22:50
- Weird fish of the week: Opah
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- The enigmatic Opah (Lampris guttatus) is certainly an ocean oddity, but it is surely also one of the most beautiful fish to be found in the world's se... (No votes)
Bob Mehen on Thursday 14 July, 2011, 16:23
- Weird fish of the week: The Fangtooth
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- The depths of the world's oceans are full or strange, ugly and downright freakish-looking fish and this week's weird fish, Anoplogaster cornuta – commonly known as the Fangtooth or Ogre fish – doesn't buck the tre... (No votes)
Bob Mehen on Friday 8 July, 2011, 12:30
- Weird fish of the week: Atlantic hagfish
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- There can be few weirder fish than the Atlantic hagfish. In fact it's so peculiar that some scientist argue it's not a fish, or even a vertebra... (1 vote)
Bob Mehen on Friday 1 July, 2011, 10:20
- Weird fish of the week: Sling-jaw wrasse
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- Many fish species have evolved strange and unusual mouthparts to help them feed, but few if any have gone to the lengths of the Sling-jaw wrasse (Epibulus insidiato... (No votes)
Bob Mehen on Thursday 23 June, 2011, 15:06
- Weird fish of the week: Brook lamprey
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- Lampreys have a fearsome reputation as razor-toothed parasites intent on sucking every last drop of blood from whatever unsuspecting fish they latch onto, but the Brook lamprey's feeding habits go against the image of its bloodsucking brethr... (No votes)
Bob Mehen on Friday 17 June, 2011, 9:21
- Weird fish of the week: Four-eyed fish
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- You don't have to plunge to the depths of the deep ocean to discover weird fish. Some of them - like the Four-eyed fish - are literally bobbing about on the surface, being peculi... (No votes) 1 comment
Bob Mehen on Thursday 9 June, 2011, 12:13
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