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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- Julseyover 14 yearsI feel bad for the blobfish... its sooooooooooooo ugly. i mean how do u liv with urself lookin like that????? like cummon, couldn't it be born pretty instead of UGLY!!!!!!! i'm doin current events in school but this is EXTRA credit. watev. DONT THINK IM A NERD!!! i am one are'nt i? DONT EVEN ANSWR THAT QUESTION! anywayz the point is the blobfish is U-G-L-Y... ugly. PEACE OUT PEOPLES PS: I bring peace to the world
- Stellaover 14 yearsOH~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~``
- tommyalmost 15 yearsgood
- nickalmost 15 yearswow
- Kendelalmost 15 yearsWow that sad but they are kinda weird looking!
- Stellaalmost 15 yearsPOOR FISH!! the blob fish needs 2 surive the may look gross but that doesnt mean i want them 2 dissapear foreva!
- why should you care?almost 15 yearsyou guys are really mean this fish colud save your lives all you care about is its looks racist people!
- yo mama almost 15 yearsthose fish are wierd rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- trickster248482almost 15 yearsthoses are sure ugley fishes
- dadaalmost 15 yearsoh no even do it look scary animal should disapiere
