#eurypharynx

[herpsandbirds]

Gulper Eel or Pelican Eel (Eurypharynx pelicanoides), family Erypharyngidae, order Anguiliformes, found in the deep sea in temperate and tropical oceans around the world

photograph by Paul Caiger | WHOI

[weepingwidar]

Konstantin Korobov (Russian, 1985) - Jonah (2024)

[a-book-of-creatures]

Please, can we talk about gulper eels? You mentioned them a few days ago and I'd love to hear your observations on them.

Unlike the barreleye and the blobfish, this is more a behavioral thing than an anatomical thing.

There's a popular image of Eurypharynx pelecanoides, known as the pelican eel, gulper eel, or pelican gulper eel depending on who you ask and how pedantic they are, that makes them a sort of deep sea monster with a cavernous mouth.

Fair, I guess.

But nothing prepared us for what they do while alive underwater - something which we didn't capture on film until 2018.

They inflate their mouths like balloons.

How ridiculously adorable is that?

[handlersandhumans]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The next Handlers and "Humans" chapter is out!

Chapter 44: Epistolary Love

[nature-and-biodiversity-blog]

Gulper Eel Eurypharynx pelecanoides

[handlersandhumans]

Regarding the ask game, I just wanna know #6 for Raven and the Dissidents

Hell yeah!

Raven: Darren Dunstan, specifically as Maximillion Pegasus from the Yugioh english dub but with a lot of feedback behind its words

Valen Hayes: Deep-voiced TTS Software :3

Eurypharynx/Eury: Peter Hinwood as Rocky from Rocky Horror Picture Show in the song The Sword of Damocles, complete with reverb

Cerah Flamel: I don't have any voice claim for her, but she has a rather neutral voice that's been rendered deep and scratchy by years of habitual drug use and Coral burn

[tomamapoulpo]

Eurypharynx

[trixiejackmattachine-blog-blog]

A gulper eel specimen.