My son came home with a book from his school library about deep-sea life. Last night we read the book at bed time marveling over all of the exotic colors and sizes and mysteries about this completely fascinating creatures. Then we turned a page and saw this:
That, blog readers, is a sea creature rarely seen by humans called a Blob Fish. My son and I were hysterically laughing at this slimy dude with the floppy big nose. How could this big blobby fish actually exist?
It does, in fact, exist…off of the shores of Australia and Tanzania. Because of its lack of muscle, it floats above the sea floor without expending energy on swimming. It only eats the food that floats in front of its face. What a lazy spineless creature! I’m grossly fascinated!
Discovering this Blob Fish in my son’s library book makes me realize just how little about the world that I really know about. There is so much to learn, and I get caught up in my own bubble of life forgetting sometimes just how much more there is. Thank you, weird Blob Fish, for the reminder.
My song of the day is the B-52′s “Rock Lobster,” because it is the closest song I could find about another sea creation…you know, Blob fish, crustacean….whatever. So, click HERE to hear the B-52′s sing their strange little tune that oddly became such a big part of pop culture. You never know what one might find to be captivating.
