Fact File: Blobfish

The blobfish is a weird looking animal which was first found in New Zealand, 1983. It
comes from a bigger fish family called Psychrolutidae. But its individual term is
Psychrolutes microporos and the Blobfish was widely known after its trend on the
internet. It was due to its ugly face as shown below. After a while, there was a poll by
the Ugly Animal Preservation Society to choose what was the ugliest animal. The
ugliest was the blobfish. Blobfish species live in some of the deepest pockets of the
ocean, at depths between 600-1200m so it is quite hard to fish them out. The pressure
at that depth is one hundred times more than what you feel right now. Henceforth, the
fish has adapted accordingly. Its body is squishy, with soft bones and extraordinarily
little muscle. When a blobfish is caught in nets and brought to the surface,
decompression can make it expand and cause its skin to relax, distorting its features.
And on land or the deck of a boat, its gelatinous tissue doesn’t hold its structure, so it
collapses into shapeless mass much like a washed-up jellyfish.