Archive for the ‘ Fish ’ Category
Starfish seem like pretty innocuous creatures don’t they? I mean we’ve all been to Sea World/Blue Planet/the actual sea, touched one and then been a bit disappointed by the lack of reaction. However, starfish are not as squeaky clean as you might think. In fact, they can be pretty brutal when they get a bit [ READ MORE ]
Observe the brown trout in its natural habitat, bottom-feeding in tandem on herbs and shallots. Only joking! This is a pair of brown trout that have been brutalised by human handiwork! Or maybe these trout didn’t meet their crispy end at the hands of humans. What if they are, in fact, female brown trout and [ READ MORE ]
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 [ 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 [ 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, [ 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 [ READ MORE ]