No standard Mers here

[ink_in_hand]

Someone mentioned a while back that they were curious as to what a Gulper Eel (some species also known as the Pelican Eel) would look like as a merperson. Well...here you go whoever you are.

"What were you expecting? Ariel?"

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Whoa, I'm seriously out of it if I can't rationalize the details of some of my favorite organisms...

[chopperaerials.livejournal.com]

Pardon, I'm still kinda drowsy from class; how does the infamous mouth work now, if you don't mind my asking?

Re: Whoa, I'm seriously out of it if I can't rationalize the details of some of my favorite organism

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

Probably much the same way. The thing I see needing to happen would be a lack of a sternum, so that anything they swallow isn't caught up in the ribcage.

[chopperaerials.livejournal.com]

I wonder how that would affect the skeletal structure...I suppose the relevant bones would connect in some other way, but I have no knowledge of anatomy, so I can't say anything more.

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

Well the sternum is the front bone of your chest that the ends of your ribs attach to, so I don't see much rearrangement necessary for things to work. I'm hard pressed to think of a fish that might have a sternum to begin with anyway. *anatomy geek*