Anyone who ’s spend any time flipping through aNational Geographicknows that the sea is dwelling house to many marvelously weird wight . There ’s thegoblin shark , which thrusts its total jaw forward to eat ; thebobbit insect , which has truly terrorise jaws capable of slicing a Pisces in one-half ; andblobfish , which count altogether normal in their rude mysterious sea environment but resemble a pile of snot on the Earth’s surface .
And then there ’s the astronomer fish .
There are53 speciesin the family Uranoscopidae , and they can be foundall over the worldin waters both deep and shallow . All of these bony Pisces are venomous ; some have electric Hammond organ they apply to shock their quarry , and some haveluresthey use to influence quarry to come closer . These ambush predators habituate theirpectoral finsto entomb themselves in the sand and hurl out to devour fish , crabs , and anything else ill-fated enough to wander by .
When stargazer are entomb , their eyes , anterior naris , and upward - front mouths sit down just on the airfoil — and they look totally horrifying .
Even when they’renotburied , they do n’t calculate very well-disposed .
In fact , they wait kind of like the horror picture monster the Babadook . Do n’t trust us ? Here ’s a side - by - side .
Sweet dreams !
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