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The 'ugly' blobfish doesn't look like this—when it's underwater
In 2013, the blobfish was voted World’s Ugliest Animalby theUgly Animal Preservation Society in an effort to get some ...
Shimmery deep-sea creature with fanged teeth washes ashore in Oregon. See it
A shimmery deep-sea creature measuring almost 5 feet mysteriously washed ashore on an Oregon beach. Now, researchers get a ...
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Depressing Photo Shows Even Deep Sea "Living Fossil" Fish Can't Escape Ocean Trash
Coelacanths are some of the strangest fish that swim the world's oceans. These wonderfully ugly fish have remained almost ...
Deep-Sea Fish Has Hair—Oh Wait, Those Are Giant Parasites
In haunting footage captured about 1,604 feet (489 meters) under the sea, cameras captured the tubular crustaceans latched ...
Blobfish, World's Ugliest Animal, Wins New Zealand's Fish Of The Year Award
The blobfish, once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," has been named "Fish of the Year" by a New Zealand environmental group, the Mountain to Sea Conservation Trust, in an effort to raise awareness ...
Blobfish overcomes notoriety as ‘world’s ugliest animal’ to win New Zealand’s ‘fish of the year’
It has been a dramatic change of fortunes for the blobfish. Back in 2013, the gelatinous sea creature was declared the ...
Our love of the ocean runs deep, but yet, we’re in troubled waters
Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.
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Behold the Blobfish
Of the hundreds of deep-sea critters hauled in on the New ... thanks to fishing trawlers Soon this fish won’t be around. The Ugly Animal Preservation Society asks why handsome, zoo display ...