New Species of Fish with Anus on Head Discovered in Indiana

[KamaAina]

http://www.realclear.com/science/2014/06/02/new_species_of_fish_with_anus_on_head_discovered_in_indiana_7269.html

Researchers announced this week that they have discovered a brand new species of cave-dwelling fish in Mammoth Cave system's southern Indiana regions. The very appropriately named "Hoosier Cavefish" is the first new species of cavefish to be found in the United States in over 40 years.

What truly makes this fish remarakable however is what it sports on its forehead. The Hoosier cavefish displays an anus in a location where most other animals exhibit literally anything else.

We're not sure what the Hoosier cavefish's ancestors did to deserve this fate, but it couldn't have been something good. We will never stop marvelling at Mother Nature's ability to craft things that are unapologetically strange.

Hoosier cavefish? Shouldn't it be called the pencefish?

[Exilednight]

1. Natural selection took the shit for brains a bit too literally.

[Cerridwen]

5. Oooo, I wish I'd thought of that one.

[Jackpine Radical]

29. Jumped.

I was gonna say I thought Republicans were the only species with…

[irisblue]

2. Republican fish

evolutionary dead end

[fredamae]

4. Awwwww, geeez You Beat me to it :) n/t

[Cerridwen]

3. Aaaaand, the jokes just start writing themselves.

Ass on head rather than head up ass.

Butthead.

Shithead.

Anal retentive.

Asshole where "your" head should be.

Rather than "head over heels," maybe "ass over head."

Giving it a "better" name than Hoosier cavefish would be fun, too.

Ok. I'm done.

For now.

Thanks! I needed a laugh.

[bluesbassman]

6. I heard Boehner keeps one in an aquarium in his office...

With a mirror right next to it.

[Arugula Latte]

7. Latin name: Beavus buttheadus

[steve2470]

12. beat me to it lol nt

[Warren DeMontague]

20. latin name:

Bill O'Reilly

[Arugula Latte]

37. Bill doesn't like Latin. They speak that in those damn foreign Latin American countries.

[edbermac]

8. A fish that truly stinks from the head.

[NV Whino]

9. Took a wrong turn from Fukashima?

[KamaAina]

10. Or Springfield

[hifiguy]

39. My first thought.

[99Forever]

11. I'd have thought they found in Washington DC...

... in the seats of Congress.

[Arugula Latte]

13. Walleye never heard of such a thing!

I thought I was being haddock --- hook, line, and sinker -- but I guess this is the r-eel deal!

PAGING PINBOY ... COME IN, PINBOY ...

[Warren DeMontague]

21. Are you out of your mind, chum?

You have no sense of scale.

[Arugula Latte]

36. Well, all right. I cod have done better.

[KamaAina]

40. This thread has totally jumped the shark.

[Arugula Latte]

43. That's not what I'm herring.

But I might have a different angler on it than you.

[Jackpine Radical]

30. Crappie humor.

It really smelt.

[Arugula Latte]

35. Sorry. Sometimes I really flounder on DU.

[Jackpine Radical]

38. I just post here for the halibut.

So I guess I'm just a sucker if I carp and crab from my lofty perch, so I'll just clam up now.

[KamaAina]

41. Good thing it's not in California. We have a serious trout out here.

[Jackpine Radical]

44. By Cod, I got nothing to carp about, and I mean no eel by this, but

the morays of this society sometimes make pikers of the best of us.

[Arugula Latte]

14. You would have thought that they would have named THIS fish "the Crappie"

[BainsBane]

15. You posted the wrong picture

[Warren DeMontague]

23. THIS CREATIVE FACIAL HAIR FAD HAS GONE TOO FAR

[BainsBane]

25. No

It's absolutely perfect.

[Hiraeth]

16. Truly, an Asshat has been discovered.

[TBF]

17. I was expecting a Dan Quayle joke -

but I'm probably showing my age with that comment ...

[KamaAina]

18. No, that would be a potatoe with an anus.

[TBF]

24. Right?

At least someone remembers that dolt ... although he may have been smarter than W.

[smokey nj]

19. Head butt!!

[NuclearDem]

22. First gay marriage becomes legal in Indiana

and now we've got fishes with asses for heads.

Coincidence?


























Yes, actually.

[sakabatou]

26. Gives a new meaning to the insult, asshat

[Hekate]

27. Name it for Dubya, who was often called shit-for-brains

[Lizzie Poppet]

28. Follow-up story: Hoosier cavefish to seek the GOP nomination...

...and has a slight lead in early polling among likely GOP primary voters.

[pinboy3niner]

31. Surprisingly, Republicans are buying up the campaign bumper stickers...

"Anushead 2016"

But seeing that, I still can't tell which GOP candidate they're supporting.

[Initech]

32. Tea Party fish?

[panader0]

33. Human version:

[backscatter712]

34. Like Pence, it has shit coming out of its head. n/t

[KamaAina]

42. Hence, "pencefish".

[Orsino]

45. ...Immediately submits anti-union bill to Lege. n/t

[mike dub]

46. Yer sure it wasn't the Indiana governor they saw?...

naw, his head is already up his Ass. My bad.

[MineralMan]

47. The Lesser Rushus Limbaughii

Little known, but malformed.