![]() THEY WERE VOTED THE “WORLD’S UGLIEST ANIMAL.” Some of the food it catches includes crabs, mollusks, and sea urchins. This is an effective hunting method for a creature with barely any muscle. It spends most of its time chilling above the seafloor, only moving to open its mouth when something edible approaches. There isn’t much food to come by at the bottom of the ocean, so the blobfish has evolved to conserve its energy. What it does mean is that the same skin that provides them with natural buoyancy underwater relaxes into a flabby mess without pressure. This means that when blobfish are taken out of the ocean, they don’t need to worry about rapidly expanding swim bladders pushing their guts out through their mouths. Such an organ would burst under the pressures of the deep ocean, so instead blobfish rely on their gelatinous flesh to keep them barely floating above the seafloor. These internal air sacs allow fish to maneuver through the water without sinking. To stay buoyant, most fish have something called a swim bladder. ![]() Blobfish don’t have much bone or muscle, instead allowing the extreme pressure of the deep sea to provide their bodies structural support. At those depths, inhabitants experience up to 120 times the pressure they would on dry land. Blobfish are typically found 2000 to 4000 feet beneath the ocean’s surface. But at the bottom of the ocean-where the fish is actually meant to be-it’s much easier on the eyes. ![]() Most people familiar with the blobfish have only seen images of the sad, flaccid monstrosity out of water. Rachel Caauwe via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0
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