I mean, they’re still kinda goofy looking when alive.
Blobfish
Submitted 3 days ago by fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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samus12345@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“Wait don’t take the photo I’m not rea…”
Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Can we. for once, not bring Trump into everything?
samus12345@lemm.ee 3 days ago
But he’s mentioned in the fish’s name.
samus12345@lemm.ee 3 days ago
He looked so much younger then.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Boris Johnson?
ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 days ago
From the thumbnail I thought this was a naked ass
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
So I don’t need to lose weight, I just need to live somewhere with 1,470 psi of pressure.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Then you need to gain bone structure
Fandangalo@lemmy.world 3 days 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
CassiniWarden@infosec.pub 3 days ago
How can it be in pain, and be a corpse?
Maalus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Those were its last words
logicbomb@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
alucard@feddit.org 2 days ago
That’s not entirely correct either, because apparently “blobfish” can also refer to the wider Psychrolutidae family, also known as fathead sculpins, meaning that other species from the Psychrolutidae family get referred to as “blobfish”. So blobfish != exclusively Psychrolutes marcidus, which makes OP’s post more accurate than your comment.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So blobfish != exclusively Psychrolutes marcidus, which makes OP’s post more accurate than your comment.
I never said what you’re accusing me of saying. When Y corrects X, it is possible to say that Y is wrong without saying that X is right.
Even when I referred to it once as “blobfish”, that was to state its binomial name, not to state that “blobfish” was correct. OP used the term “blobfish” in exactly the same way. It’s logically impossible for OP’s post to be “more accurate” than mine.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 days 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.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
But a photo of a normal-looking fish has extremely limited entertainment value.
WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Makes you wonder if you’re blobby because you’re in the wrong environment.
Opisek@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Perhaps I do belong isolated in the deep dark sea.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Are you reading this, ConcernedApe??
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 3 days 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.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Maybe those blobfish are magic. I’ll hope for them!
ninthant@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
This was news to me, thanks for sharing this OP.
Stardew valley lied to me!
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 days 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.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
I always assumed the Stardew starfruit was a special fruit that just happens to share a name with our starfruit.
Unknown_0671@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
true. I think the star representation is fine because eating it the slices are basically stars so its valid artistic license.
as for blobfish, u can argue its dead when u catch it but aquarium and ponds exist so that’s kinda sus
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 days 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.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
This is a “you” vs “the guy she tells you not to worry about” meme format
Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days 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
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 days ago
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Good od Earthworm Jim…memories and RIP Shiny
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I had no idea, now I’m just sad.
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Source please or I’ll stick to my previously unchallenged image of ugly blobfish
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
So what’s Ted Cruz’s excuse for looking like figure A?
exixx@lemmy.world 3 days ago
He decompressed. Clearly he was meant to be at the bottom of the ocean
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 days ago
We can fix this.
nilo@lemm.ee 3 days 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:
BaronessBarf@lemmygrad.ml 3 days ago
I wish people brought this energy to the meat industry
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“stop depicting blobfish like this, and blobfish isn’t what it’s called”
That specific one, as depicted, is blobfish. Blobfish is not a species, it’s an individual. Like Greenboots.
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Aww :[
coaxil@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Blob fish, and fancy blob fish,.
Gottit!
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
“Big Ugly” propaganda here. Only rely on their instagram selfies :P
ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Moisturised, Flourishing.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
First picture was just bad hair day.
VerbFlow@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days ago
In the same vein, stop drawing dead butterflies
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Damnit, I’m going to see this everywhere now, aren’t I?
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 3 days ago
Yep.
You’re welcome.
Spaniard@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Thanks for making me one of the 10000 today
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
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Interesting!
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
That bottom depiction really makes it obvious that butterflies never have their wings like that
MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I can’t wait to ruin this for every single person I know going forward. Thanks!
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Oh wow, thats very interesting!
Delzur@vegantheoryclub.org 3 days ago
Didn’t see that coming. In retrospect, I should have noticed that a long time ago… Thanks for the info
bmpvy@feddit.org 2 days ago
i will never see butterfly depictions the same again
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Neat, the alive ones look way more like moths too.