I mean, they’re still kinda goofy looking when alive.
Blobfish
Submitted 4 weeks ago by fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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samus12345@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“Wait don’t take the photo I’m not rea…”
Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Can we. for once, not bring Trump into everything?
samus12345@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
But he’s mentioned in the fish’s name.
samus12345@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
He looked so much younger then.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
From the thumbnail I thought this was a naked ass
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Boris Johnson?
logicbomb@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
But a photo of a normal-looking fish has extremely limited entertainment value.
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
So I don’t need to lose weight, I just need to live somewhere with 1,470 psi of pressure.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Then you need to gain bone structure
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
This was news to me, thanks for sharing this OP.
Stardew valley lied to me!
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
This is a “you” vs “the guy she tells you not to worry about” meme format
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Are you reading this, ConcernedApe??
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Maybe those blobfish are magic. I’ll hope for them!
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I had no idea, now I’m just sad.
nilo@lemm.ee 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
So what’s Ted Cruz’s excuse for looking like figure A?
exixx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
He decompressed. Clearly he was meant to be at the bottom of the ocean
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
We can fix this.
BaronessBarf@lemmygrad.ml 4 weeks ago
I wish people brought this energy to the meat industry
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
In the same vein, stop drawing dead butterflies
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Damnit, I’m going to see this everywhere now, aren’t I?
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 4 weeks ago
Yep.
You’re welcome.
Spaniard@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thanks for making me one of the 10000 today
MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I can’t wait to ruin this for every single person I know going forward. Thanks!
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
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Interesting!
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Oh wow, thats very interesting!
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Neat, the alive ones look way more like moths too.
Delzur@vegantheoryclub.org 4 weeks ago
Didn’t see that coming. In retrospect, I should have noticed that a long time ago… Thanks for the info