If you looked like that, you’d be very sad, too. Especially if you’d just been trawled up from your nice home a thousand meters beneath the sea and made to pose for a photographer.
(via Jeffrey Shallit)
Mr Blobby
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Ziggy? Is that you?!?
So THAT’S where Kilroy ended up.
Another site with pic and info on Blobby: http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/SeaLife/DeepSeaCreatures/2/ENZ-Resources/Standard/2/en
This picture should really be prefeaced with the parasitic copepod warning. You know, for the kids.
“Tis a sculpin under Acanthopterygii –Percomorpha—Scorpaeniformes—ect…
Hehe, Ziggy. My first thought was “Zoloft blob.”
They weren’t affectionate enough towards it not to trawl it from its home in the first place though. :-/
Wow, judging by the description, this is like the Eric Cartman of the Fish world….
-JJR
If you were called a “fathead” you’d be pretty miffed too.
Squidward! Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!
Funny thing I bumped into: Was taking a peek at my brother’s blog traffic last week, and someone had gone over by clicking “next blog”. It was a videogame blog, and revealed the origin of Mr. Saturn’s appearance: In Smash Brothers Melee, Mr. Saturn is described as a “blobfish”. That photo above was shown in comparison on the blog.