The female Blobfish lays thousands of eggs at once and unlike a lot of fish, the Blobfish will actually stay with her eggs, floating above as usual of in some cases literally sitting on the eggs. These fishes were watched at several different locations and levels by a remotely operated vehicle and have been studied every year since they were found. The fish were in an area where other species of fish & octopus were also breeding. The first Blobfishes in reproduction were discovered in 2000 on the Gorda Escarpment off the California coast. It looks like a big lump of jelly but it has a triangular face with an expression that is kind of like a scowl or frown. Blobfish were first described in 1978, very recently in terms of fish identification. That’s good, because a Blobfish has no muscles at all. This lets it float above the floor of the sea without needing to swim. This means that the Blobfish can float just above the sea bottom using very little energy. Because it is all gel, this fish has a density that is less than water. The Blobfish can withstand the high pressure (80 times higher than at sea level) because its body is jelly-like and has a density just less than water. You will probably never see one in the gelatinous flesh because it lives at extreme depths of the ocean and is rarely seen by humans except for the local fishermen who catch them by trawling the sea bottom with nets. If you looked like the Blobfish, you too would be perpetually scowling. It looks like a mass of gelatin with wide lips and a large bulbous nose between 2 very tiny eyes and a constant expression of distaste. The Blobfish lives in the extreme depths of the sea off the coasts of Australia & Tasmania. This saltwater fish may be the ugliest fish in the ocean.

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