![]() But in the high pressures of deep water, a swim bladder would just burst. Lots of fish stay afloat thanks to a handy little gas-filled sac called a swim bladder that allows them to adjust their buoyancy. In fact, the aspic-like texture of its flesh is unique in itself. Blobby and snapped a now-famous photo - some would go so far as to call it a mugshot - of this bulbous fish out of water.īut the deep-sea blobfish has some other cool features besides its pretty face. This deep-sea fish had a parasitic copepod hanging out of its mouth, and looked like the cartoon character Ziggy after a monthlong bender. The blobfish's disgruntled visage became an overnight international sensation in 2003, long before the The Ugly Animal Preservation Society got ahold of it, when the NORFANZ deep sea expedition pulled up a large, pink blobfish off the northwest coast of New Zealand. ![]() You would be upset, right? Well, it's a very good thing the blobfish ( Psychrolutes microporos), a member of the illustrious fathead sculpin family of deep-sea fishes, doesn't speak English and also lives very far away - 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) under the ocean off the coast of Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand - because in 2013, it was voted the World's Ugliest Animal by The Ugly Animal Preservation Society. Imagine someone voted you the ugliest person at work. The blobfish looks like a normal fish under water, only becoming a blob when it transitions from the pressure at depth to the surface.
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