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Show FISH THAT FELL UPWARD Brilliant Colors Have Been Noted at a Depth of Three Thousand Thou-sand Feet. According to Sir John Murray, ono of the greatest authorities on oceanography, ocean-ography, the bottom of the sea Is a desert of pitch black darkness, penetrating pene-trating cold nnd eternal sllenco, say& tho London Evening Standard. Worms, soa puddings and coral polyps sluggishly slug-gishly crawl or sway In tho almost currentless depths, and only two species spe-cies of fish, both of them small, with much head and llttlo body, havo been found doener than a mile and a quar-tor quar-tor down. Tho rnngo of fishes In tho sea is as though It woro divided Into layers, ono abovo tho other, and no flBh can live abovo or below his layer. Thus many of tho doopor fish three-quarters of a mile below tho surfaco havo beon found floating nt the top; they had swallowed a fish as largo or larger than themselves and Its buoyancy had lifted them out of tho strata to which thoy wero accustomed . Tho physiology of a bottom fish Is almost al-most Impossible to know, becnuso thoy ore built to resist a tremendous pros-1 euro of water, nnd when this pressuro I Is released as whon thoy aro brought to tho surfaco In a net sometimes the fish has burst; tho organs aro crushed beyond reconstruction. Similarly f a flsh of n higher strata attacks a bottom flsh In tho neutral zone whoro both can live, and as sometimes happens his teeth become entangled so tuut ho cannot let go and ho Is dragged Into deeper wator, ho strangles Instantly, for his breathing arrangements aro of no use to him under tho pressure A water in tho lower strata of tho sea. As a rulo, however, tho flsh of tho various dopths rarely feed on thoso nbovo or below thom. Thero havo beon brought to light an astonishing number of forms of flsh, and especially of prawns of a brilliant red color, living In tho ocean at a dopth of 3.000 foet. But, aston Ishlng as It may scorn, there brilliant-ly brilliant-ly colored flsh and prawns, Instead of being conspicuous In the water at that depth, aro almost lnvlslblo when almost al-most any other color could bo easily seen. |