The Ugliest of Creatures

Anglerfsh

Anglerfish are angry-looking creatures living at the bottom of the Atlantic and Antarctic Oceans. These fish have massive heads and enourmous crescent-shaped mouths with sharp, translucent teety. Angler fish are gray to dark brown and there are more than 200 species of Angler fish at the bottom of the ocean. They derives their name from the luminescent piece of retractable dorsal fin above their mouths, smiliar to a fishing pole helping them attract prey. Their diet includes small fish, crustaceans, squid, and other cephalopods.

Atlantic Wolffish

Atlantic wolffish are also referred to as sea wolves or devilfish and have a ferocious appearance. These fish are found near the sea bed in the cold waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. They have large canine-like teeth that stick out of their mouths using them to hunt prey like crabs, lobsters, sea urchins, and large marine snails.

Atlantic Wolffish have the ability to produce antifreeze components preventing their blood from freezing.

Blobfish

Blobfish live in the deepest, darkest depths of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Poor creatures have a gelatinous appearance and look like what they actually are droopy, slimpy fish. The Ugly Animal Preservation Society named the blobfish the ugliest fish in the world.

Blobfish live at depths greater than 1600 feet. With their unique body compostion they are adaptable to the pressure of the depths and can swim with little effort. They feed on crustaceans, mollusks, and other small invertebrates on the ocean floor.

Frilled Sharks

Frilled sharks are found in the murky depths of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. These sharks are referred to as living fossils and ranked among the most primitive species of sharks in existence today. They have snake-like heads and very wide jaws with which they can swallow their prey whole. They dine on small fish, squid, and other cephalopods.

Goblin Sharks

Goblin sharks can be found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. As well as the Gulf of Mexico, Tasman, Phillipine, and Coral Seas. They are deep ocean swellers and among the rarest sharks in existence. Goblin sharks have elongated snouts and strange, oddly shaped jaws with sharp teeth. Their jaws protrude far from their mouths to grasp prey.

They have pink to purplish gray skin with visible blood vessels beneath the skin and slender, flabby bodies. These sharks dine on teleost fish like rattails and dragon fish. They also consume cephalopods and crustaceans. Despite their intimidating appearance they pose little or no danger to humans.

Hagfish

Hagfish are eel-shaped and live in the cold, deep waters of the world. They are also referred to as slim eels and are creepy looking. The fish have no eyes or jaws and their bodies have no bones with their skeleton made of cartilage. They forage for food at the bottom of the ocean.

Illuminated Netdevils

Illuminated netdevils are a species of Angler fish and live in the tropical and subtropical oceans of the world. These deep-sea fish have luminous organs to lure prey. Male illuminated netdevils are smaller than female ones and parasitic. They attach to the female's belly close to the anus, and spend their lives hanging upside down and facing forward.

Monkfish

Monkfish are also referred to as goosefish, fishing frogs, sea devils, and anglers. They make theri homes at the bottom of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. They are eaten in Europe and in Japan.

These fish have mottled skin, huge heads and mouths, small eyes, and fang-like teeth. They are known to be voracious feeders, feeding on any prey available to them.

Red-Lipped Batfish

Red-Lipped batfish are bottom of the ocean dwellers around the Galapagos Islands. Their signature look is their bright red pouting mouth and they have beards, and mustaches. They dine on small fish, shrimp, and crabs.

Even though these fish are awkward swimmers they can use their pectoral and pelvic fins to "walk" on the seafloor.

Sloan's Viperfish

Sloan's viperfish are a species of dragonfish found in the temperate and tropical water around the world. They live in depths ranging from 3280 to 6561 feet. Their diet includes crustaceans and small fish.

Sloan's viperfish have a light-producing organ known as photopores. This helps them attract prey. These fish have elongated fangs resembling miniature daggers. Their very prescence shows they are a frightful and impressive sight.

Whitemargin Stargazers

Whitefish stargazers live in the Indo-Pacific - Red Sea, Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga. These fish have eyes on the top of their heads and upward-facing mouths.

They ambush predators by submerging in sand with only their eyes showing. Then striking at the prey with their mouths. The fish also have the ability of inflicting electro shock through their electro plaques.