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In the 1990s, the CIA's Office of Advanced Technologies created "Charlie," a robot catfish, to study the feasibility of unmanned underwater vehicles for intelligence collection. Charlie is on display in a "secret" museum located inside CIA headquarters. Not open to the public, the museum showcases artifacts from decades of intelligence gathering.

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Underwater Crop Cirlcles?

Recently while on a dive near Amami Oshima at the southern tip of the country, Ookata spotted something he had never encountered before: rippling geometric sand patterns nearly six feet in diameter almost 80 feet below sea level. He soon returned with colleagues and a television crew from the nature program NHK to document the origins what he dubbed the “mystery circle.”

Here is what they found.  Read on at This is Colossal

We don't know why priapiumfish evolved their peculiar gonads

The male fish, a Phallostethus cuulong just 2 centimetres long, weaves between drifting vegetation in the sluggish waters of a canal. He closes in on a female, swims alongside her and tries to mate with her.

But to an outside observer, he seems to be doing it wrong. His head is right next to the female's, but he's at a 45-degree angle so his rear end is well below hers. Sounds misguided, but actually he's doing it exactly right – it's just that his gonads are on his head.

LINK (via: New Scientist)

Fish Ads

Pull My Fin

A team of marine biologists at the University of Florida have been using autonomous sea robots to record the sounds that fish make in order to map their distribution. They have recorded three unknown biological noises, which they believe to be fish farts.

LINK (Via:Wired UK)

This is Fleye

Or perhaps bee.