We Have Still Barely Seen the Longest Fish

It would be one thing if the most mysterious fish was some little thing under a rock somewhere, but oarfish are MASSIVE and they have a legitimate claim to the title. Shirts are Here! https://store.dftba.com/collections/hank-green If you buy both of the new shirts, put the code "molacult" in at checkout for $16 off. --- Dr. Dahiana Arcila - https://scripps.ucsd.edu/marine-vertebrate-collection/people Video edited by Aves: https://bsky.app/profile/avesmhl.com Interview edited by Nies: https://bsky.app/profile/nies.bsky.social SOURCES: My conversation with Alex - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgLbYhnK30Y Oarfish testes - https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23605 Oarfish are the longest bony fish, and they self-amputate their tails - https://www.fishbase.se/summary/25038 Regan's 1925 paper identifying the "bumps" as parasitic males, and the source of the quote - https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1925.0006 Charles Tate Regan (1878-1943) - https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/people/na1235/charles-tate-regan History of the discovery and the modern view of why anglerfish do this - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-005-0286-2 "The Immunogenetics of Sexual Parasitism" (Swann et al. 2020) - https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz9445