Some Very UGLY fishies ....
 

I saw this on another forum and thought I would share with you all. These fish were apparently washed up on the beaches after the Tsunami. I am assuming that they are deep sea creatures that live in the dark depths of our oceans. More like aliens I think. :crazy: I mean some of them look MEAN...and I wouldnt like to swim with them....have you seen anything like them before?

Fish 1

Fish 2

Fish 3

Fish 4

Fish 5

Fish 6

Fish 7

Fish 8

Fish 9

thats some fucked up looking sea life.....very interesting to look at

That last one doesn't look whole.


I think he's missing something.

No. 6 looks like a Baby Killer. That is really interesting I wonder what other weird things are washing up?

uuuuuugly indeed!

The seventh one looks really nifty. The other ones just made me say "ick"....

are those new species or something?

I've seen some before, #8 and 9 are deep-sea fishes. #2 is called a spider crab I think. #5 is the ickiest, it kind of looks like it has a bloated human face!

Wow, it's really increible how much life is out there that we just never see. And maybe it's better that way! :P

He's definately all there, mister :)

They are indeed deep sea creatures. They work very differently to the ones we would normally see, to cope with the lack of light and the water pressure.

I don't know what I would do, if I saw one of those alive in the water...

Swim away VERY quickly?

wowwowowow freaky!

I think I dated some of those freaks...

I have seen a lot of these guys on The Discovery Channel & the like. Definately deep sea fish.

That's awesome :D I assume all these are known species? It'd be really cool if some weren't, but I suppose the chances of that are unlikely.

I wonder....could these be mutants? Or how about the result of rampant pollution in the ocean?

Yeeecchcchcchh!!!

You got that right. I got the heebee jeebees looking at that thing. A very limited number of things can do that.

fish number 9 looks pretty weird. Maybe the pictures were edited with adobe photoshop or something. There are some really talented people out there. You never know what you're looking at when you get pics online

Nope nope nope!! I'm sure these are the real thing. http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=...ff&sa=N&tab=wi

Look at the possible permutations of living things, guys. You'll be amazed! :thumbsup:

hmm. intersting. well it's a good thing i said "maybe", so if i was wrong, i wouldn't be 100 percent wrong

HEHEHE, you so remind me of me!! (how about that toast, dude?)

i remind you of you???? that's cool (toast sounds pretty good right now)

It does indeed, but I'm bullying you off topic!

Number 8 looks like the coelocanth that I remember reading about when I was in grade school. It is a deep ocean species that rarely turns up in fishing nets. Some of the others look like things I have seen drawings of. The depths are definately an alien world. Most of these probably would not survive very long within a few hundred feet of the surface. All of us SCUBA divers are glad of that.

bullying??? what's bullying???? , and fish 9 looks weird.

Yes, it surprises me that they are intact, in fact. I thought the lack of pressure would change the way they looked.

i think #7 looks kinda cute--for a fishy creature, that is.
i'd love to keep that one for a pet if i could own a fish like that.

#2 is a longnose chimera, I found that same image somewhere else.
#8 Looks like a Dragonfish, thought it was an anglerfish at first.
#9 I'm sure I've seen before. I thought it was a black swallower, but google image search and the filename say otherwise.
Freaky stuff, great post :thumbsup:

Those are some damned cool looking fish!

I think I had some of those once. I took antibiotics. They went away.

my laugh for the night, thank you.
:)

Considering how much the ocean takes up of the planet, I don't think it's a stretch to see things I've never seen before come from there. But some of those are really cool looking. I'd like to see how they've evolved into that, and what purpose some of those malformaties serve. Cool post.

I dunno, am I the only one who wants to eat them to see what they taste like?

The place i first saw #2 was in a search for a picture of that seamonster corpse that was pulled out a few years ago that was all decayed. Also possibly for the loch ness monster search. It shows up there because it looks so much like a mini nessy, when in reality the "neck/head" part is really just like a bill or a big nose (not a nose, but looks like one heh)

There's tons of odd fish out there. There's one's i've seen on nature shows that dont swim with their fins, but walk on the sea floor with them. It's really strange to see a fish walking on its fins instead of swimming with them. Personally i think flounder and fluke are strange looking fish, granted they're more common.

The black one with the big mouth and teeth is the freakiest looking one imo. Another of them looks kinda asian sea-dragonish. Not suprising its in asian waters.

I'd eat every single one of them, at least I'd give em a try.

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Holy Shit!!!

2.
What the fuck?!?!?!?!?!?!

3.
Ooooh........tingly!!!!

4.
*Gagging Motion*

5.
I think I tasted Dinner with that one.

6.
That could be painful

7.
ahhhhhh....how cute!

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Whoa! that NASTY!!!!

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Did it lose something?

number 8 fish looks like the one out of finding nemo.....remember when Dory and Marlin go down to the depths of the ocean and they come across the light...... :crazy:

I forgot to ask; don't deep sea critters explode/disintigrate (from the lack of pressure) when they even get near the surface, let alone out into the atmosphere? I thought I read somewhere that that's why they're so hard to study.

makes me honestly think of my D&D days, imagine if we found Leviathan. 1000 feet Blue Whale. That would be amazing.

Those are some cool looking animals, the crab looks really tasty.

Sometimes you have to have unique things to survive, and those deep sea animals carry some of those traits.

They all are great, but number 6 is straight up badass.

Those same pics are several years old, and had nothing to do with the tsunami.

They are fucking freaky though. I'm glad they don't live near the surface, sharks are enough!

that is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.. very amazing, each beautiful and scary

Yes apprently they are from other oceans (Atlantic for one!) Also the earthquke which caused the tsunami was in relatively shallow water. Either way extremely interesting find thanks! :)

What site did these photos come from?

Found where the pictures came from http://www.divestories.co.za/uglyfish.htm

Certainly ugly fish, but no indication they were washed ashore during the tsunami.

Several Anglerfish, a couple of eels and some rather nifty looking dog/shark/fish/thingys.

I'd love to see the stuff that did get washed ashore in the tsunami, perhaps a submarine or two? lol.

Wow, 8 and 9 look like something H.R Giger would come up with.

Sushi for everyone!

Yeah, #5 is bothering me on fairly deep level though I can't really place exactly why.

You wouldn't. It's pitch black that deep and the pressure down there would probably have already killed you long before one swam up.

Asta!!

#2 was the only one I have never seen the likes of just plain freaky.

Well, nothing really gets washed up due to tsunamis, since in deep water it is just a transfer of energy. No water actually moves (except maybe up and down slightly). Only when the wave of energy hits shallow water and encounters resistance does any major flow of water happen.

#6 looks nasty but pretty neat at the same time.
#9 looks like something straight out of an xfiles episode.

None of those fish hold a candle to the Goblin Shark

http://www.marinethemes.com/aasearch...01%2038692.jpg

Couldn't find one of the good pictures I'd seen before but they are by far the freakiest looking fish..quite scurry.

Asta!!

Having been a major fan of wildlife documentaries for almost 16 yrs. now, I think that most of the information flowing out of (or about) the other side of the world as regards to the seas is just questionable. I am no expert what-so-ever about the ocean's, and yet I know that creatures that live at deep ocean depths would not even be recognizable, much less photographical, were they brought to sea level, due to pressure.

That said, there is bound to be dead sealife that hasn't been seen before that is going to be washed ashore because of the wave action. At any other time, that might be cool, but not now. This world, for better or worse, is populated by the creatures that have the largest and most complex brains. That means humans. We need to band together and forget skin color, religion, motives, etc. and do what needs to be done to help our fellow human beings in their time of need. The people in those devestated countries are scared to death to come down from high land because they're afraid "the sea" will swell up and swallow them. They are also (from what I've read) too supersticious to even eat the very fish that could sustain them because they might have been feeding on the flesh of the dead (not that I could blame them).

I was dumbfounded to read in "Time" that this is not only the most recent but not even the largest of the most recent natural disasters to happen. Iran lost hundreds of thousands of people only a few years ago, yet did we hear about it? Much less, did our government tell us or send that much aide over there? No. Gazillions of people have died in the last decade, I just don't understand why no one payed attention to the loss of life before the Asian Tsunami of recent times happened (including myself). We just don't know it's happening unless the press tells us....

I for one am sending what piddly amount I can (sorry Halx to defer what I would otherwise send to TFP!) to the Red Cross to contribute what little bit I can to help those oversea's.

Ali

http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/creature.asp

seems that they are real, but as several people mentioned, they've got nothing to do with the Tsunami.

Also, I don't think the water that washed up on Sumatra ea. would be the water at the bottom near the epicentre... Wouldn't make sense to me, that water just pushed other water around, isn't that how waves work in essence? So that means it's water from the shallow part that really flooded those lands?

That's really cool to bad they weren't alive so we could study them more but the difference in the pressure makes that very hard to do.

Call me a skeptic, but I could be persuaded to believe that there's a hint of hoax with that story. Not to say that these species of fish don't exist, (well, maybe some of them don't) but I've learned to take everything you get from the internet with a grain of salt.

Holy fuck, that's creepy. Some deep sea stuff really intrigues me.. but only to the point that it's all really fugly and sorta cool in that way.

CREEPY but sooo interesting at the same time.

As usual, folks, Snopes is there:

<a href="http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/creature.asp">http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/creature.asp</a>.

They're still pretty cool lookin' fish, even if they're not tsunami victims.

i find it really hard to believe that all these deep sea fish washed up on shore after this whole tsunami. In 1000' of water, sure there may be a shockwave, but a current strong enough to push these fish hundreds of miles??? I doubt it. I totally believe these species are real, I just don't think they were found on-shore

a biologists dream catch!

guys.. read the thread.. it's been said multiple times now that it didn't actually come from the tsunami. Just look at the freaky fish :)

Those are some crazy looking critters!!!

SUSHI anyone?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure #5 is glaring at me...

haha sweet!
theyre so cool
the fat one made me crack up
it really does resenble a human's face :)