Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — Fierce Carnivorous Fish. [ARTICLE]

Fierce Carnivorous Fish.

Such fierce carnivorous fishes as exist in the depths of the ocean are unknown at the surface. There is the “black swallower,” which devours other finny creatures ten times as big as itself, literally olimbiug over its victim, first with one jaw and then with the other. Another species is nearly all mouth, and having no power of locomotion, it lives buried in the soft ooze at the bottom, its head alone protruding, ready to engulf any prey that may wander into its cavernous jaws. There is a ferocious kind of shark, resembling a huge eel. All of these monstirs are black as ink. Some of them are perfectly blind, while others have enormous goggling eyes. No ray of sunlight e\vr pierces the dark, unfathomed caves In which they dwell. Each species is gobbled by the species next Ser, for there is no vegotable ii.s to on.—[Caicago Herald.