On the other, it shows how little we understand about the creatures in the deep sea partly because it's such an inhospitable environment to humans," Arnott said. "I think the issue of the blobfish raises a lot of issues on one hand, it's a great ambassador for the deep ocean – it's totally charismatic and instantly memorable. Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Thiele/Getty Images So lots of fish have this problem where, if they are pulled out of the water quickly from a deep depth, they don't have time to react to the change in pressure, biologically, so it causes damage to their bodies."ĭeep sea fish brought up from the ocean's bottom, such as this anglerfish specimen collected around 1900, are often distorted by their reaction to the lower pressures found out of the water. That is not what they look like in their natural habitat. "The blobfish in that picture looks the way it does because of damage it took because of the rapid change in pressure. Blobby it's not good, right?" Weatherford said, inviting comparisons to the Spongebob Squarepants character Squidward by Christian and co-host Ellen Weatherford.
"The infamous picture of the blobfish, Mr.
Blobby," the specimen was part of the Australian Museum's Ichthyology Collection in Sydney, suspended in an ethyl-alcohol solution before its famous photo. But that all changes when it's brought to the ocean's surface, which is what happened to the 11-inch specimen pulled from approximately 3,300 feet of water off the coast of New Zealand in 2003. This bodily structure has a well-defined shape in the multiple atmosphere pressures where the blobfish maintains a largely neutral buoyancy. "It's flesh and muscles are very flabby and soft, which is meant to handle the pressures." "Its bones are very soft, to avoid cracking under extreme pressures," host Christian Weatherford said in the 2019 episode. The podcast Just the Zoo of Us, whose account originally posted the question to which Arnott responded, addressed the effects of such an environment on the blobfish in a 2019 episode. Pls DONATE HERE - Russell Arnott July 9, 2020 If everyone donated just $0.01 we can keep making great content! People have kept loving the blobfish thru the night!įYI is a non-profit marine education group that has had all our income removed by CoViD. Living at depths greater than 2,000 feet beneath the ocean's surface, where no light penetrates and species are acclimated to incredible pressure, the environment in which the blobfish lives is very different from those experienced by fish living in shallow water ecosystems. Several of those species, including the gooey pink specimen-the smooth-head blobfish Psychrolutes marcidus-most famously associated with the blobfish name, are residents of deep sea abyssal zones in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, particularly in the waters around Australia and New Zealand. "To a degree, the blobfish is the victim of a vast bullying campaign!" Arnott told Newsweek in response to an emailed request for comment.īlobfish is a common name for the family Psychrotidae, which includes about 40 species of toadfish and sculpins. As it is clear that the moniker "blobfish" is no longer fit for purpose (after all the fish isn't normally a blob), we shall now only refer to the fish, Psychrolutes marcidus, by its common name, the Stubblefish (as suggested by #blobfishnomore /cJAwZEN08P- Russell Arnott July 10, 2020
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