sexual dimorphism

Anglerfish are weird. The Anglerfish is a deep sea fish with a light attached to its head. It uses the light to lure prey into its mouth. For a long time, scientists didn't get why they were only finding female Anglerfish. They figured out that the male Anglerfish can't survive on his own. When the male Anglerfish is born, he finds a female Anglerfish. Then he bites her. The male Anglerfish attaches himself to the female, becomes a part of her body. He fuses his bloodstream with hers. Then the male Anglerfish slowly atrophies, loses his lungs, brain, heart. He atrophies until he's just a pair of gonads. Scientists used to think male Anglerfish were parasites.

I wonder how this all goes down. The baby boy Anglerfish is born, hatches out of a jelly egg. He swims and swims until he finds a girl Anglerfish. He can't look at her because the deep ocean is really dark. And the baby boy Anglerfish's eyes are really small. He doesn't see her, he smells her. He thinks she smells pretty good. So the baby boy Anglerfish bites her. They swim around together. He digests some of her skin, some of his lips. It's nice. Pretty soon, some prey comes swimming along. Maybe it's a deep sea shrimp or something. The girl Anglerfish wants to eat the shrimp. She lights up her light. The deep sea shrimp starts to swim toward the light. Now, for the first time, the boy Anglerfish can see the girl Anglerfish. He looks at her, and her face is, like, really gnarly.

I wonder what happens next. I wonder if the boy Anglerfish says something like Hey. Thanks for keeping me alive and stuff. It was really fun. But I just remembered, I'm late for an appointment. I gotta get out of here. Then the boy Anglerfish swims away. He swims and swims, then he smells something. He thinks it smells pretty good.