Ill! How disgusting! Doesn't that look totally ugly! Remember what our bioluminescent animal is? The Deep Sea Angler Fish! We would like to teach you the anatomy, diet, predator/ danger, protection, location and interesting facts about this animal. Let's start with the anatomy.
Anatomy:

• Female Deep Sea Angler Fish have a globular shape to their body. We can sort of put it, that it looks like a basketball. This adaptation isn't for rapid swimming but it is used for staying motionless most of the time. Its skin does not have scales and the color of the skin is black or gray. The skin is also very delicate. The fish has a weak skeleton as well. It has gills and the slits for the gills are very very small. It looks like a curved line. It has a huge mouth too which is good because it gets a better chance of eating prey.

Diet:

• Did you know that this fish has a fishing rod on its head? Wow, what a puzzling question! It doesn't actually have a fishing rod on its head but it does have something that looks like food to other fish which is called filament. The tip glows in the dark. This is called bioluminescence. It attracts the fish. So yeah... it can eat any fish that comes around the corner. The weird thing is that females eat large organisms and males eat small organisms. They also eat shrimp by the way. Don't forget they also eat crustaceans.

Predator/ Danger:

• People, how dare we harm these nasty looking lovely animals. Deep Sea Anglerfish are part of our ecosystem. As we throw chemicals and garbage into the ocean we are also harming these animals. Is our waste harmful? You bet it is!

Protection:

• Well, really it just has to try to be avoided or being sensed. They stay motionless and since the Deep Sea Angler Fish has dark colored skin it is rarely noticed.

Location:

• A little too obvious. Haven't you noticed that the Deep Sea Anglerfish contains 2 hint words. Deep and Sea. So yeah it does live in the deep sea. We told you it is obvious!

Interesting Facts:

• The females are much larger than the male. The female can be the size of a grapefruit when the male can be up to your little finger which is about 2. 5 inches.
• The male attaches himself to the female by biting into the skin and that will be the last bite it ever takes! After that they become inseparable and the male depends on the female for all food and nourishment. Their bodies will become one and the male will lose all its organs and even his eyes! 
• Fishermen report their catches have decreased and/or have been catching smaller ones.