Scary ass fish found after Tsunami

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not sure if this was already posted or if you guys got this email (i got it a few weeks ago) but it's been giving me nightmares ever since.

http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/scary-fish/aphyonus.jpg

http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/scary-fish/basketwork_eel.jpg

http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/scary-fish/blob_fish.jpg

http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/scary-fish/chimaera_fish.jpg

http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/scary-fish/chimaera_pup.jpg

http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/scary-fish/coffinfish.jpg

http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/scary-fish/crab.jpg

http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/scary-fish/fangtooth.jpg

http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/scary-fish/hatchetfish.jpg

http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/scary-fish/lizard_fish.jpg

http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/scary-fish/prickly_shark.jpg

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

sorry, posted a few more than once

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

OK, some of those sort Ive seen before (argh an umbrella-mouth eel with its spiny teeth argh nightmares). But WHAT THE HELL is that thing with the long flat pointed er... proboscis and sharkish body?

Sod looking for aliens, the sea got yer aliens right here.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Did they come out of a printing press???!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Snopes already called bullshit on this one I'm afraid.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Aw bums. Are these all just standard deepsea exploration finds pictures instead then? I was thinking it a bit odd that deepsea fish, if washed ashore this way, werent all squashed (as they shouldbe coming out of such pressure surely?)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

Yup, just your average deep sea scary-ass fish, not connected to the Tsunami.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

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

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Love the teeth on the penultimate one.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/gates.asp

― pocket person, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

xxxxxx-post Sod looking for aliens, the sea got yer aliens right here.

i actually posted this because Scott Seward was talking about not being into eating lobster for this very reason

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

the eyes on the fat pink/purple one look so photoshopped. fucking scary.

― eman (eman), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

MODERATOR, PLEASE JUST CHANGE THREAD TITLE TO SCARY ASS FISH, YARRRGHG!!

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

It looks pissed off.

xpost

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

i think we've already had our scary-ass fish thread. do a search for "missionary" and "stilleto", or something like that. we eventually locked it, for the good of all mankind.

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Scary ass-fish:

http://www.scubadiving.bb/images/seahorse_small.jpg

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

ladies and gentleman, the monkfish:
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/art2001/monkfish540.jpg

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Whoever named it that must have been to some fucked up monastery.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

http://images.burningman.com/gallery/pmattf.7348.jpg

― pocket person, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

the previous scary-ass fish thread:

What very mildly kinky things do you do in bed?

probly one of my fave threads here.

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bajadestinations.com/fishid/oarfish/oarfish.jpg

Behold the Oarfish!

― andy --, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.brianskerry.com/images2/fish/oarfish.jpg

A clearer picture of the oarfish... it's really sort of pretty.

― andy --, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

pretty and bizarre!

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.monsterous.com/~satch/boots/art/phish-wilbur-f.jpg

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

http://toons.artie.com/ransfrans/arg-o1de-sme11ie-fishe.gif

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

I've long bean beaten to it, but I'd already seen all of those photos long before the tsunami.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/medusa1_us/FM_TheLastFish.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

These fish are just as God made them

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

This species is sexually dimorphic (glossary). Females reach a total length of 20cm, but males only grow to 1.6cm. Males have well developed sense organs that are used to find a female. When a male finds a female, he bites her and doesn't let go. His skin fuses with the female and he becomes a parasite on her.

Friends don't let friends become fused parasites. But of course, if your friend is that ugly, you should let him hang on to whatever he can catch.

― Hunter (Hunter), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

I know some males like that.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

By the way, one of the alternate names for the oarfish is King of the Herrings! It grows to over 20 feet in length!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Goddamn! These are excellent! I'm using them for CD-R covers!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

There is something about sea creatures that scares me more than any other animals on earth.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Jeanne so OTM it hurts.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Wow oarfish are cool. What that artist's rendering above omits is the intense red color of the dorsal fin and pectorals.

This is a cool story. Poor fishy.

This one broke in half when a bystander tried to pick it up while it was swimming in the shallows.

― Hunter (Hunter), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Why did the pics come from http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/scary-fish/ ? Is it because they're artificial?

― Critic, Saturday, 5 March 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

No, they're real, as explained on Snopes:

"Although they are genuine images of some rather strange deep-sea creatures, these photographs have nothing to do with the Indian Ocean tsunami. They date from mid-2003 and were taken as part of the NORFANZ voyage, a joint Australian-New Zealand research expedition conducted in May-June 2003 to explore deep sea habitats and biodiversity in the Tasman Sea. These photographs can be viewed on Australia's National Oceans Office web site. "

― brianiac (briania), Saturday, 5 March 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Thankfully, living 2,000 miles from any ocean pretty well isolates me from these monsters. But I'm still dealing with the trauma of a childhood fishing trip when I pulled one of these ugly mothers out of the Mississippi:

http://latis.ex.ac.uk/cfarchive/gar.jpg

― brianiac (briania), Saturday, 5 March 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

You'd have had a far more traumatic experience had it pulled you in, which, looking at it, seems a good possibility.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 5 March 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6305596247.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― latebloomer: Klicken für Details (latebloomer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

http://zelazny.corrupt.net/covers/lamps-first-b.jpg

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Saturday, 5 March 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/rattail2.JPG

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02sab/logs/aug11/media/greeneye_600.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.swerbo.com/archives/early_years/billy-thorn-fish.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/tv/blueplanet/picpops/images/prog2_2.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nautilus.com.vu/images/image017.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.city.ac.uk/optometry/Ron

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.blameitoneve.com/stuff/fish_files/image082.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.arthropod.net/replicas/sealife/images/lrs28-ge.gif

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mailsbroadcast.com/zban.deepsea.fish-big.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/greatlakesfish/Graphics/sealamprey.gif

― latebloomer: my cats are wobderful (latebloomer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/jpn/photography/gallery/200207nakamura_ikuo/image/work04l_i.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.costa-rica-deep-sea-sport-fishing-boats.com/costa-rica-sport-fishing-marlin-sailfish-images/dorado-fish-big-photo.JPG

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.amonline.net.au/collections/images/ichthyology/240/i18115006.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.offthemarkcartoons.com/cartoons/2001-03-08.gif

― latebloomer: my cats are wobderful (latebloomer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.amonline.net.au/collections/images/ichthyology/240/i20410006.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rocketpack.org/blog/archives/scary.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/scary-fish/blob_fish.jpg

'What are YOU staring at pal?'

― moley (moley), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

http://untruenews.com/images/dick_cheney.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.se.gov.sk.ca/media/Saskatchewan%20Environmentnewsline/sturgeonfing.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.starfish.ch/photos/fishes-Fische/scorpionfishes-Skorpionfische/Rhinopias-eschmeyeri.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/ken_sims_98/current/e12.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

http://pharyngula.org/images/oreo_dory.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

http://gummibunny.com/archives/crazy%20fish.JPG

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rocketpack.org/blog/archives/scary.jpg http://www.sippe-w.de/assets/images/jp3.jpg http://www.taste.de/A/rubriken/kino/Spielberg/images/g_t_rex.JPG

― latebloomer: my cats are wobderful (latebloomer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.divestories.co.za/images/Black_Lip_Rattail.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Fossilgroups/Osteichthyes/Ugly-fish.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_SM/0001-0309-2621-2854_SM.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

http://freshfiltered.com/Gallery/BoroughMarket/Images/UglyFish_Med.JPG

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

http://stevegarufi.com/denveraquarium2.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

http://gaspe.cgaspesie.qc.ca/crioux/magic/giant_squid.jpg

― latebloomer: my cats are wobderful (latebloomer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

http://gummibunny.com/archives/crazy%20fish.JPG

http://www.soniguales.com/fotos/JarJar.jpg

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 6 March 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

Why did the pics come from http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/scary-fish/ ? Is it because they're artificial?

look at my email, buddy

― JaXoN Hole (JasonD), Sunday, 6 March 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

http://bigmouth.here-n-there.com/proposal_files/image001.png

PHEAR

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 6 March 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

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