I mean, they’re still kinda goofy looking when alive.
Blobfish
Submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/6cb2605a-aa5d-4022-b66a-3f8c9daf4cc9.webp
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samus12345@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Wait don’t take the photo I’m not rea…”
Zerush@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Can we. for once, not bring Trump into everything?
samus12345@lemm.ee 10 months ago
But he’s mentioned in the fish’s name.
samus12345@lemm.ee 10 months ago
He looked so much younger then.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 10 months ago
From the thumbnail I thought this was a naked ass
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Boris Johnson?
logicbomb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The name information is incorrect.
Psychrolutes is the genus, not the species.
Psychrolutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Psychrolutidae, the fatheads and toadfishes. […] There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus
The binomial name of the blobfish is Psychrolutes marcidus. But realistically, “binomial name” is not always the same as “proper name”. There are a lot of animals whose common names include misconceptions, or even insults. Just look at the information about Psychrolutidae (that’s the Family) above. “Fatheads” sounds insulting, and “Toadfishes” aren’t toads.
I wouldn’t have even bothered looking this up, except that the artist wrote the “proper name” so poorly that I first read it as “Psychrd Lutes”. And the second reading, I misread as “Psychiro Lutes”, due to the weird “R” that looks like none of their other Rs. I read it correctly the third time, but I have to wonder at the wisdom of not writing it clearly when you’re trying to emphasize how it is spelled.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But a photo of a normal-looking fish has extremely limited entertainment value.
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
So I don’t need to lose weight, I just need to live somewhere with 1,470 psi of pressure.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Then you need to gain bone structure
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Aliens do an Earth drive by, use a tractor beam to yank a human specimen through the mesosphere, log the name of the species as blisterface and fly away.
ninthant@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
This was news to me, thanks for sharing this OP.
Stardew valley lied to me!
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Stardew lied a lot lol. Starfruit for example, only looks like a star in cross section, but i guess the actual starfruit is hard to represent in pixel.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
This is a “you” vs “the guy she tells you not to worry about” meme format
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Are you reading this, ConcernedApe??
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Maybe those blobfish are magic. I’ll hope for them!
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I feel like if there’s anyone out there who would use this new information to make right by the Blobfish, it’s him.
Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I spread this information anytime I can find it to be relevant. This and the incorrect myths about goldfish memories and short lives are so annoying to me. I love my fish friends
Fandangalo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why not use both and turn it into a 2 panel meme?
Me when I have water Me when I’m a human living in the modern world
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 10 months ago
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I had no idea, now I’m just sad.
nilo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I had no idea too but then came across a random Vox video about high pressure where they mentioned it.
I then did a little research and wrote the article below:
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
So what’s Ted Cruz’s excuse for looking like figure A?
exixx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He decompressed. Clearly he was meant to be at the bottom of the ocean
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 10 months ago
We can fix this.
BaronessBarf@lemmygrad.ml 10 months ago
I wish people brought this energy to the meat industry
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
What worst, is i found the depiction in children’s book. It’s kinda sad the myth doesn’t get corrected as much because people justify it as entire different thing.
VerbFlow@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I thought that the Grandma Blobfish quest from Half-Genie Hero would age badly, but I didn’t know how badly
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 10 months ago
In the same vein, stop drawing dead butterflies
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Damnit, I’m going to see this everywhere now, aren’t I?
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Yep.
You’re welcome.
Spaniard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thanks for making me one of the 10000 today
MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I can’t wait to ruin this for every single person I know going forward. Thanks!
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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Interesting!
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Oh wow, thats very interesting!
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Neat, the alive ones look way more like moths too.
Delzur@vegantheoryclub.org 10 months ago
Didn’t see that coming. In retrospect, I should have noticed that a long time ago… Thanks for the info