• Question: What is the biggest animal you have ever dissected

    Asked by mad scientist to Lydia on 14 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Lydia Bach

      Lydia Bach answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Hello mad scientist!

      The largest fish I have ever dissected was a eel that was 103cm long! But thats kind of cheating because eels are very long!
      Only on Friday I dissected a flounder, which is a flatfish that was about 40cm! So the fish in the shallow sea shores aren’t that big! But I found 42 tiny crabs in the stomach of that flat fish – now that was a big meal!

      Here is a picture of a flat fish looking grumpy:

      http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/flatfish.html

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