Ralli

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. 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

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ShaniFaye

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

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World's King

That last one doesn't look whole.


I think he's missing something.

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Tracybrian

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

che

uuuuuugly indeed!

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CinnamonGirl

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

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Rudel73

are those new species or something?

Pip

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!

onodrim

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

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dobster

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.

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Vincentt

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

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CinnamonGirl

Swim away VERY quickly?

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AquaFox

wowwowowow freaky!

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Demeter

I think I dated some of those freaks...

Demeter

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

SecretMethod70

That's awesome 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.

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jorgelito

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

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Cadwiz

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

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pinoychink790

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

dobster

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!

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pinoychink790

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

dobster

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

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pinoychink790

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

dobster

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

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greytone

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.

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pinoychink790

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

dobster

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

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Karby

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.

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lite campfire

#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

Homey_V

Those are some damned cool looking fish!

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clavus

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

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Karby

my laugh for the night, thank you.

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Seething

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.

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sixate

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

ObieX

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.

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splck

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

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Holy Shit!!!

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What the fuck?!?!?!?!?!?!

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

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*Gagging Motion*

5.
I think I tasted Dinner with that one.

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That could be painful

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ahhhhhh....how cute!

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Whoa! that NASTY!!!!

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Did it lose something?

Ralli

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......

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lite campfire

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.

Konichiwaneko

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.

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