Bob Blob Fish

Blobfish look almost unrecognizable underwater These tadpole-shaped fish have bulbous heads, large jaws, tapered tails, and feathery pectoral fins. Rather than scales, they have loose, flabby skin .

The blobfish are deep-sea fish. Part of the fathead sculpin familya piscine class of tadpole-shaped bottom-dwellersthey mainly live off the coast of Australia, guarding the depths of the

Mark McGrouther, the fish manager of the Australian Museum where Mr. Blobby would later be preserved and put on display, described the specimen as a quotvery soft, very goopy fish, about the length of a comic book. While the ship swayed, the jiggly mass slid to and fro, even in death.quot Aquamarine Fukushima Bob the blobfish swimming at

Bob and his brothers also named Bob are blobfish, creatures that can barely move because they have no muscles in their bodies. They are also boneless and float in one place like jelly. Peso met the Bobs at the top of an active undersea volcano. Bob and his brothers wait for food to come to them instead of going after their food. Bob and his brothers are pinkish-mauve colored, look like pink

Though blobfish were voted as the world's ugliest animal in 2013 by the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, Koji Matsuzaki, Bob's caretaker, thinks that Bob is cute and that visitors seem to think so as well. Bob, however, isn't used to the attention and his fans sometimes have to look hard to get a glimpse of the shy fish.

Strange, secretive and an internet sensation find out why the blobfish is captivating scientists and social media audiences alike.

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Psychrolutes marcidus, the smooth-head blobfish, 1 also known simply as blobfish, 1 is a deep-sea fish of the family Psychrolutidae.It inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of mainland Australia and Tasmania, as well as the waters of New Zealand. 2Blobfish are typically shorter than 30 cm 12 in. They live at depths between 600 and 1,200 m 2,000 and 3,900 ft, where the pressure is

This fish, aptly named Bob, was accidentally caught at a depth of below 2400 feet and has survived in the aquarium thanks to special customizations such as low light to mimic his natural habitat. In captivity, the fish has changed with its skin taking on a spiky look. In their natural habitat, both blobfish and blob sculpins have smooth skin

Habitat of the Blobfish. These fish have a very specific habitat zone that they inhabit. For the most part, they remain close to the sea floor anywhere from 2,000 ft. to 3,900 ft. deep. This depth is called the mesopelagic zone. The pressure at this depth is approximately 80 times that of the surface.