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[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bony-eared_assfish

The bony-eared assfish may have the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of any vertebrate.

Poor fish

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like many other creatures that dwell in the depths of the sea, assfish are soft and flabby with a light skeleton. This is likely to have resulted from a lack of food and the high pressures which accompany living at such a depth, making it difficult to generate muscle and bone

TIL I am like the creatures dwelling in the depths of the sea, both flabby and low in muscle mass, but not for lack of food...

and onus could either mean "hake, a relative of cod", Hanke says, "or a donkey". Adam Summers, associate director at the Friday Harbor Laboratories at the University of Washington, concurs, saying onus could easily read "as a homonym of the Greek word for ass".

I love how instead of translating it to being like hake they went with anus.

[–] randomsnark@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I believe when they say "Greek word for ass", they mean ass as in donkey, not anus.

όνος - donkey, ass, burro

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

…right.. that would make sense

[–] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

They really have it in for that fish:

Like many other creatures that dwell in the depths of the sea, assfish are soft and flabby with a light skeleton.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Insert your favourite most-hated person here.

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The funniest part is they have every right to do this kind of stuff.