Show FISH THAT FELL UPWARD brilliant Crill lant colors have been noted at a depth of three thousand feet according to sir john murray one ona of the greatest authorities on oceanography og raphy the bottom of 0 the sea Is ia a desert of pitch black darkness penetrating cold and eternal silence says the london evening standard worms sea puddings pud dinga and coral polyps sluggishly crawl or sway in the almost cur depths and only two species of 0 fish both of 0 them small with much head and little body have been found deeper than a mile and a quarter down the range of fishes in the sea Is as though it were divided into layers layer sone one above the other and no fish can llva live above or below life his layer thus many ot of the deeper fish three quarters of 0 a mile below the surface have bave been found floating at the top they had swallowed a fish as large or larger than themselves and its buoyancy had bad lifted them out of the strata to which they were accustomed the physiology of a bottom fish Is almost impossible to know because they are built to resist a tremendous pressure of water and when this pressure is released as when they are brought to the surface in a net sometimes tho fish has burst the organs are crushed beyond reconstruction similarly if a fish of a higher strata attacks a bottom fish in the neutral zone where both can live and as sometimes happens his teeth become entangled so that he cannot let go and he is dragged into deeper water he strangles instantly tor for his breathing arrangements are arc of no use to him under the pressure of water in the lower strata of the sea As a rule however tile the fish of the various depths rarely feed on those above or below them there have been brought to light an astonishing number numb er of forms of 0 fish arid and especially of prawns brawns of a brilliant red color living in the ocean at a depth of feet but astonishing as it may seem there brilliantly colored fish and pra brawns prawns ans instead of being conspicuous in the water at that depth are almost invisible when almost any other color could be easily A seen ul |