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. It’s me versus the fish, and there’s no contest.

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
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Official mascot for the NBA

California Sheephead
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Worst sweaters ever.

Blobfish
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Fang Faces
I vant, to bite, your eyes. A pile of spikes with a creature attached.

Fangtooth
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Scaly Dragonfish
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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
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“Did you just fart?” “Sorry, I had souvlaki for lunch.”

Bat Fish
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“Honey I swear I’m not cheating on you! The lipstick is from the fish. It was the fish I tells ya!”

Scorpion Fish
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When hiding from its prey, the Vomit fish takes on the shape of last night’s dinner. Looks like it exploded.

Leopard Toadfish
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Preparing to shoot cosmic deathbeams from its eyes.

Moray Eel
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Have you theen my thtapler?

Wolf Eel
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Fanfin Seadevil
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Ohhhh, the old sillystring gag, graaaaaar!

Unidentified Anglerfish
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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
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There’s a reason why blue and orange are no one’s team colors.

Scrawled Filefish
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My dad was a sea horse, and my mom was a glow stick.

Pingpong Tree Sponge
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Sea Candy

Unidentified
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Probably only legal in Amsterdam.

Unidentified
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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
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Described, accurately, as a living fossil. You so old, you in Jesus’ yearbook!

Rockfish
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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
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Loved you in ET.

Human-Faced Carp
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Human face on a fish. ‘Nuff said.

Spookfish
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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
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Micheal Jackson in 12 years.

Giant Isopod
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My crotch itches just looking at this guy.

Gulper Eel
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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
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Tastes great with blueberries, butter and maple syrup.

Smooth Trunk Fish
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Jackknife Fish
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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/


69 Responses to “Dissing the Deep: Freaky Fish”

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  2. there are definately teams with blue and orange as their colors

  3. Excellent pic’s.more than 90% of all life on earth is in the water.

  4. “When hiding from it’s prey” means “When hiding from it is prey.”

  5. 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”

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  7. The fish photos are quite exotic! Although I’m not a big fan of the color commentary.

  8. :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!

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  9. “‘Your’ a spammer, that’s worse than bad grammar.”

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  13. Da Bears are blue and orange, it’s just navy blue and loks black

  14. I agree with Shane. Gooooo Gators!!

  15. Syracuse is orange and blue

  16. I loved this! Thank you for letting me see it

  17. The University of Illinois’ colors are orange and blue as well…

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  19. Sheephead aren’t scary at all.

  20. 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.

  21. Cool Site… I love looking at how amazing some of these fish are…

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  23. Wait a minute!! Can you imagine what WE look like to them?

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  25. This fish is quite an inspiration for making art.
    I think the rock-fish would make a perfect movie monster.

  26. WOW.

    GREAT PICS!

  27. 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)

  28. 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.

  29. They are so interesting.

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  37. sheephead isn’t so freaky, especially compared to those other fish. sheephead is probably also the tastiest, although probably the only one i’ve ever eaten on that list.

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  39. I agree with the sheephead is pretty handsome compared to the rest of the motley crew!

  40. haha blob fish vs scaley dragonfish who do you think would win in a fight?

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  42. These fish are really freak. I had never seen one of them. If I got chance to see, I may be scared

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