Ecologist Kerryn Parkinson snapped a photo of a particularly bizarre-looking pink fish among their discovery. It was all hands on deck literally, in our steel cap boots and hard hats and gear to get all the specimens to the sorting lab,” remembers Kerryn Parkinson, ichthyologist at the Australian Museum. Preservation will very slightly shrink the specimen, so his external skin has tightened and it looks more like a tadpole shape,” says Parkinson. The kind of face that says, “I’ve seen the abyss, and it’s less disappointing than my coffee machine breaking.

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Over the last two decades, the blobfish has become “a poster pin-up for discovering new things” and “all the stuff down there we still don’t know about”, Parkinson says. But, she concedes, she does work in an environment where she gets to see lots of strange, otherworldly creatures. In 2016–17, the blobfish notably appeared as a punchline on Saturday Night Live and as a gag in the 2018 season of The X-Files, among other instances in popular merchandise and media. When it’s underwater, the blobfish looks like a regular fish, its inflated appearance is the result of bodily decompression it experiences when removed from its native, deep-sea habitat.First of all, never flirt with, ask out, or request a number from, a girl who has her hair died some bright, ridiculous color.

The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings. Psychrolutes marcidus, better known as the blobfish, is a type of deep-sea fish discovered along with over 100 other species in a 2003 expedition off New Zealand.

In 2013, the blobfish won a World’s Ugliest Animal Competition , run by the UK-based Ugly Animal Preservation Society.

But sculpin specimens are rare, and we don’t have enough to compare and contrast physical features and make a definitive identification. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.In addition to blobfish designs, you can explore the marketplace for ugly, animal, and funny designs sold by independent artists. If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case. Determining sex would require a dissection, and Parkinson says she’s “pretty sure no one’s going to dissect the world’s most famous fish.