The World's Saddest Looking Fish May Soon Become Extinct!
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No matter how you look at it, the Blobfish has to be one of the most miserable looking animals you have probably ever encountered. And, it has a reason to be - If the fisherman continue to overfish this glum looking animal, it will soon disappear forever!
The blobfish is a deep sea fish that can be found off the coast of mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania. With very few muscles, the fish is primarily a mass of gelatin with a density that is slightly less than the ocean water. This enables it to float around on the ocean bed, without swimming or exerting any energy! As it bobs around, it feeds off anything edible that floats its way.
While not edible, blobfish live so close to the ocean bed, that they often get caught in the nets thrown to catch lobsters. As deep sea fishing becomes more prevalent in the region, an increasing number of blobfish are being pulled up - leading scientists to believe that they may soon become extinct. Now that would be really sad wouldn't it?
sources: wikipedia.org, dailymail,co.uk
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490 Comments
- Nagover 13 yearsIt s fat! Have u ever seen such a fat fish?
- maxwellover 13 yearsthe sads in the wold looks agle
- janetover 13 yearsI think this fish might got hurt of some of the bad fish,then it got sad.
- rebeccaover 13 yearsno matter how you look at it the blobfish has to be one of the most miserable looking animals
- janetover 13 yearsIt looks sad,but it looks like it's crying.Do you know where do they come from?I don't know.But you might know where they come from.
- jaimie jordyn.over 13 yearsIt kind of look's like a big rock. It look'sad. It kind of has droppey skin.
- kemyiaover 13 yearsI have never seen a sad fish.
- mmover 13 yearsthe sads fish looks wed. the sads fishs nose is fasing down.
- jackover 13 yearsthis looking fish looks ugly.
- coolover 13 yearsso cool iwant to keep it
