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