Archive for the ‘ Fish ’ Category
You know that feeling of deep-seated anxiety – the kind that keeps you awake at night thinking black thoughts about life and death and colours your days with crippling dread? It’s called the snakefish. The snakefish is something of a modern Medusa – some sort of hellish aberration that permanently scars all those that set eyes on [ READ MORE ]
If you were asked to name it, I doubt you come could up with anything more appropriate for this critter than Red-lipped Batfish, apart from Miserable Clown-faced Cornish Pasty Fish perhaps, but the lucky people whose job it is to name fish went with the former. Shame. This fish spends its days swanning around on the [ READ MORE ]
If you’re going to be as repulsive as a hagfish, then you’d better have four hearts and two brains to make up for it. That’s what this ugly little thing has to boast in exchange for an inside out face. It’s also the only creature that has a skull, but no spine. Ever the socialite, this fish [ READ MORE ]
There are a lot of weird looking animals and the deep seas have got more than their fair share of them. Nevertheless, the beautifully-monikered blobfish must be a challenger for the title of “world’s ugliest bastard”. How has the blobfish survived? If you looked like the blobfish, you wouldn’t mate. If that’s what its face looks [ READ MORE ]