The Blobfish

[125gJoe]

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http://weblog.greenpeace.org/oceandefenders/archive/2006/02/roses_are_red_o.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/24/blobfish-a-creepy-se.html

High Res Photo: http://censeam.niwa.co.nz/outreach/censeam_high_blobfish

Good name for that one!


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[kuhliloach]

creepy little fellar...

[Cheech]

man . . . that is one ugly looking thing.

[Lady G]

It looks like a cartoon character!

[Dangerdoll]

ewwwwwwwww

[electromen]

aww, he's cute

[jpappy789]

yuck

[Dangerdoll]

would like to see what it looks like in the water..... might be very different

[jojo22]

I WANT ONE!!!

[Fungi]

*Checks date*
No... it's not the 1st of April... so that thing actually exists?
Man, natural selection should blam that sucker back to the primordial seas

Just read from an annotation on one of the pictures
"Note the parasitic copepod on Mr Blobby's mouth."
So that's what it is, I thought it was just drooling...

[125gJoe]

*Checks date*
No... it's not the 1st of April... so that thing actually exists?
Man, natural selection should blam that sucker back to the primordial seas

Just read from an annotation on one of the pictures
"Note the parasitic copepod on Mr Blobby's mouth."
So that's what it is, I thought it was just drooling...Yes, I think it is, strangely enough, real.

It might look quite different if a deep water exploration sub got a few photos in it's natural environment, deep below the surface of the ocean.

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[Dwarf Puffers]

Giant sponges that lurk 3000 feet down, chimaeras, and now blobfish at the bottom of the ocean... :eek:

[Fungi]

I wonder how long it takes us before we anger something... like THE KRAKEN

[galen]

i think its sorta of shape- yuck yuck. seriously though, it may seem ugly, but it is not in its liquid environment, so yea it would sorta just blob together.

[cooldude123]

ha ha ha it looks like my sister

[Catpicklesdog]

It's so ugly it's cute!!

[msjinkzd]

this thing gives me the heeby jeebies!

[jtburf]

I just want to poke it.