Sea pig ©Photograph by NOAA/MBARI, distributed under Wikimedia Commons. A few Uranoscopidae come with baits at the base of their mouth. The uranoscopidae burrows through the sand to suddenly spring up on unsuspecting prey. This fashionably ugly fish has its flattened body, big head, and fins that look scary. On the head, males have a light-emitting mechanism that they use for hunting and seducing females. Males grow to 3cm and females to a domineering 20 cm. It is little an underwater devil in the shape of a fish. One other fishy creature that you will find deep underwater is the deep-sea anglerfish. These looks, experts say, are an adaptation to survive in freezing waters. Wolffish are normally blue or light green. Wolffish is as long as eels, often with sizes of about 1.5 meters long. Scuba divers and marine researchers christened it Sea Cat. Imagine a fish with a cat-like head, a big mouth of serrated teeth, and globes of soulless black eyes. Sea depth pressure is to blame for the ugly and malleable appearance of blobfish. This unsightly fish is 30 cm long and is made up of a jelly mass that quickly loses its shape when brought above water. The blobfish is the world's ugliest fish based on a rating by the “Society for the Preservation of Ugly Animals.” Blobfish lives 1200 meters underwater. The Blobfish ©Photograph by Kerryn Parkinson NORFANZ Founding Parties, distributed under Australian Museum. A few others emit electricity that may turn you into a vegetable. Others may do you more damage than a grizzly bear. These are the ghoulish goblins and vampires of the deep sea.
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