Dissing the Deep: Freaky Fish
It’s a bit unfair to insult these creatures, especially since, for all we know, we caught the ugliest ones of the species. As fish get more freaky, they tend to get more rare, so it’s hard to tell. Imagine if aliens landed for a quick science and data gathering expedition, and came across Carrot Top, took some photos, went back to their home planet, and said “Hey little aliens, this is what ‘humans’ look like”. And they’d be all like “gross!” That caveat now out in the open, it’s time to tear these freaks a new one.
Blob Freaks
They’re lucky they can float around underwater. On land, these fat boys wouldn’t be able to get off the couch.
Angler
Official mascot for the NBA
California Sheephead
Worst sweaters ever.
Blobfish
Fang Faces
I vant, to bite, your eyes. A pile of spikes with a creature attached.
Fangtooth
Scaly Dragonfish
Fugly
Gah. The kind of fish we’d wipe out if we didn’t always throw them back after we caught them and saw their ugly faces.
Coffinfish
“Did you just fart?” “Sorry, I had souvlaki for lunch.”
Bat Fish
“Honey I swear I’m not cheating on you! The lipstick is from the fish. It was the fish I tells ya!”
Scorpion Fish
When hiding from its prey, the Vomit fish takes on the shape of last night’s dinner. Looks like it exploded.
Leopard Toadfish
Preparing to shoot cosmic deathbeams from its eyes.
Moray Eel
Have you theen my thtapler?
Wolf Eel
Fanfin Seadevil
Ohhhh, the old sillystring gag, graaaaaar!
Unidentified Anglerfish
An ACTUAL SEA DEMON.
LOOK AT ME
I guess if you want to see anything in the deep, you’ve got to turn yourself into a walking (swimming?) light show. For bottom-dwellers, they sure seem to need attention.
Parrotfish
There’s a reason why blue and orange are no one’s team colors.
Scrawled Filefish
My dad was a sea horse, and my mom was a glow stick.
Pingpong Tree Sponge
Sea Candy
Unidentified
Probably only legal in Amsterdam.
Unidentified
The undersea equivalent of a 14-year-old girl.
Damn You Old
No wonder they’re always chasing after the cute young fishcakes. GET WITH THE TIMES, OLD FISH.
Frillshark
Described, accurately, as a living fossil. You so old, you in Jesus’ yearbook!
Rockfish
100 year old Alaskan fish. Wonders what this iPond craze is all about…
You Creep Me Out
Nature’s little discussed defense mechanism: freaking the hell out of your predators with your face.
Vampire Squid
Loved you in ET.
Human-Faced Carp
Human face on a fish. ‘Nuff said.
Spookfish
Looks like a cross between a cute little Ewok and a SPIRIT OF THE DAMNED.
Straight Up Aliens
Aliens land, dive underwater, see these things, and say “what’s up man, how you been?” No way these things are from this planet.
Chimaera
Micheal Jackson in 12 years.
Giant Isopod
My crotch itches just looking at this guy.
Gulper Eel
Bet he gets invited to ALL the fetish parties.
Almost Normal…. But No.
These fish aren’t as insane looking as the previous ones, and in fact look mostly like regular fish, with some appendage gone a bit haywire.
Ocean Sunfish
Tastes great with blueberries, butter and maple syrup.
Smooth Trunk Fish
Jackknife Fish
It’s happy to see you.
Images found at the following URLs:
http://www.oddee.com/item_79915.aspx
http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?gid=54
http://www.oceana.org/fileadmin/oceana/images/Action_Center/eCards/Images/eCard_BLOBfish.jpg
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/fishface.html
http://www.thedeepbook.org/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070406-oldest-fish.html
http://www.markhaywardismyhero.com/2007/01/28/rare-deep-sea-frilled-shark-filmed-in-japan/
i doubt forging would
Shiva said this on March 31st, 2008 at 12:16 pm
weird aND COOL fish pics.
http://www.supershiva.blogspot.com
http://www.versatilecollection.blogspot.com
ben said this on April 1st, 2008 at 7:39 am
there are definately teams with blue and orange as their colors
jj said this on April 1st, 2008 at 7:53 am
Excellent pic’s.more than 90% of all life on earth is in the water.
GrammarCop said this on April 1st, 2008 at 7:54 am
“When hiding from it’s prey” means “When hiding from it is prey.”
james said this on April 1st, 2008 at 8:21 am
GrammarCop said this on April 1st, 2008 at 7:54 am
“When hiding from it’s prey” means “When hiding from it is prey.”
You might want to rethink your “correction”
PunkBuster said this on April 1st, 2008 at 8:23 am
GrammarCop:
Get off the Internet with your pointless spam!
“Your” a spammer, that’s worse than bad grammar. @$$
Jajayjay said this on April 1st, 2008 at 8:32 am
The fish photos are quite exotic! Although I’m not a big fan of the color commentary.
Shane S said this on April 1st, 2008 at 8:38 am
:There’s a reason why blue and orange are no one’s team colors.:
Gaaaaa! Blasphemy! How you can live with this terrible ignorance of localized cultural minutiae for every member of your potentially worldwide audience is beyond my ability to comprehend!
Clearly you don’t follow American College Football ( or Basketball ) or live in the deep south.
In terms of college athletics as a religion, SEC athletics is probably best compared to Charismatic Revival Churches, and UF ( University of Florida ) is more rabid than most. Not QUITE a cult, but only because people are afraid of the backlash :o)
Seriously, though. If you have a pet bulldog, I’d suggest getting him a bodyguard, at least until this post blows over. I doubt we’d hurt him, but we still might paint him Orange and Blue!
Go Gators!!
Gator Bait!!
Shane
btraut said this on April 1st, 2008 at 8:40 am
“‘Your’ a spammer, that’s worse than bad grammar.”
I find it amazing how you managed to make a point about poor grammar in a run-on sentence. Put your money where your mouth is.
originalthoughtcop said this on April 1st, 2008 at 9:05 am
GrammarCop - Definition: A person with no meaningful contribution that preys on simple grammatical errors.
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Rainbow Fisher Guy said this on April 1st, 2008 at 9:11 am
Eep. Its fixed. Thanks.
B said this on April 1st, 2008 at 10:26 am
Da Bears are blue and orange, it’s just navy blue and loks black
kelsie said this on April 1st, 2008 at 11:21 am
I agree with Shane. Gooooo Gators!!
Michael said this on April 1st, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Syracuse is orange and blue
doris said this on April 1st, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I loved this! Thank you for letting me see it
Bob said this on April 1st, 2008 at 4:08 pm
The University of Illinois’ colors are orange and blue as well…
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William Blythe said this on April 1st, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Sheephead aren’t scary at all.
Bri said this on April 1st, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Did some of the commentary make anyone else think that some form of jock wrote it?? “Dude, dude…this fish looks like a penis!! Dude!!”
Seriously.
ryan schellenberg said this on April 1st, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Cool Site… I love looking at how amazing some of these fish are…
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Rose said this on April 2nd, 2008 at 6:09 am
Wait a minute!! Can you imagine what WE look like to them?
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Diskussion eröffnet…
(PICS) Freaky Fish :-)…
Heinrich Lederer said this on April 2nd, 2008 at 9:11 am
This fish is quite an inspiration for making art.
I think the rock-fish would make a perfect movie monster.
Jon said this on April 3rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
WOW.
GREAT PICS!
sanja420 said this on April 4th, 2008 at 7:40 am
GrammarCop: I feel you. And people, READ his/her comment (it’s CORRECT, because it’s WRONG, derf)!
Anyway, great pics; a lot of these fish are seen in action–take a look at BBC’s Deep Blue.
By the way… GO METS!!! (blue and orange team)
Fishing Trip said this on April 10th, 2008 at 8:26 am
As I looked at these great pics I thought to myself, imagine if you’re out fishing and you actually brought one of these fish up to the boat. Imagine how you would feel, react, etc. Especially if you had someone in the boat that didn’t know much about fish.
Sock III said this on April 17th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
They are so interesting.
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