hoiger-howgendoogen asked:
bogleech answered:
I know this is gonna be HEARTBREAKING for a lot of people (it was for me just the same day I first heard of Blobfish) but in the water a live blobfish does not have a hilarious ziggy nose at all:


The famous one everybody knows, which was named “Mr. Blobby” by the researchers who photographed it (and has a parasitic copepod on its mouth you may have never noticed) looks the way it does because a blobfish has extremely soft flesh and very little muscle. Taken out of water, all its skin and fat sags like a jellyfish. The flab on its forehead hangs down and makes the “nose.”

prydaz

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