Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Blobfish

I know my school kinds hates wikipedia and us students aren't supposed to beleive anything they put up there, but this is absolutly true, and i got it from wikipedia. On a blog I've been reading, aerielclaydon.blogspot.com/ The girl posted a picture of a blogfish. Just for the record, these things look like jellyfish. and jellyfish dont poo, and are 98% water.

Here is wiki's definition for a blobfish:
The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) is a deep sea fish of the family Psychrolutidae. Inhabiting the deep waters off the coasts of mainland Australia and Tasmania,[1] it is rarely seen by humans.
Blobfish live at depths where the pressure is several dozen times higher than at sea level, which would likely make gas bladders inefficient for maintaining buoyancy. Instead, the flesh of the blobfish is primarily a gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than water; this allows the fish to float above the sea floor without expending energy on swimming. Its relative lack of muscle is not a disadvantage as it primarily swallows edible matter that floats by in front of it.
Blobfish can be caught by bottom trawling with nets as bycatch. Such trawling in the waters off Australia may threaten the blobfish in what may be its only habitat.[2]
The Blobfish is currently facing extinction due to deep-sea fishing.[3]

and I can never forget a pictue...


Blobfish says, "Aw man, I look like shit today"
 
These guys don't swim but float, and control their movement not with muscles but with a floating complex 
The blobfish has a gelatinous mass of skin that is slightly less dense than water
This allows the fish to move without expenditure of energy
It eats things that float by.


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