SciShow: Why These 7 Fish Are So U.G.L.Y.

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Content of the Lesson: Some fish will never win any beauty pageants, but they still deserve our admiration, respect, and love, especially since their “ugly” traits are actually incredible examples of evolutionary innovation. Hosted by: Oliva Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/12/blobfish-world-ugliest-animal https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10307716/What-do-we-know-about-the-worlds-ugliest-animal.html http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Psychrolutes-marcidus.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/behold-the-blobfish-180956967/ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.171063 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/floating-with-a-swim-bladder/ https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(11)00349-6.pdf https://www.chesapeakebay.net/S=0/fieldguide/critter/northern_stargazer https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/astroscopus-guttatus/ https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/70356964.pdf https://www.wired.com/2016/01/absurd-creature-of-the-week-the-voracious-fish-that-looks-like-a-pug-and-stings-like-a-bee/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02326.x http://webhome.auburn.edu/~armbrjw/Ancistrus.pdf https://www.livescience.com/64763-catifsh-species-head-tentacles.html https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0038120 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/science-blog/fish-shapes-reef https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bumphead-parrotfish-poop-coral-reefs https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sand.html https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/fish/tough-teeth-and-parrotfish-poop https://www.fishbase.se/summary/5537 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1440581?seq=1 https://www.scienceandthesea.org/program/red-lipped-batfish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9inncLXAHg&feature=emb_title https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/galapagos-conservation-trust/ https://www.seattleaquarium.org/animals/wolf-eel https://www.asihcopeiaonline.org/doi/abs/10.1643/OT-14-141 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2013.1053 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2016.0374 https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animal-guide/fishes/wolf-eel https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-the-severed-head-of-a-wolffish-bite-down-on-a-can-of-coke/ https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Anarrhichthys-ocellatus.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022098108006114 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11160-009-9155-9 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0003446 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/o/ocean-sunfish/ https://oceansunfish.org/diet-size-and-growth/# ------ Images: https://www.istockphoto.com/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psychrolutes_phrictus.jpg https://tinyurl.com/vqbwgqx https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psychrolutes_phrictus_1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psychrolutes_phrictus_2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_Stargazer.JPG https://tinyurl.com/upnmxjn https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antennenwels_auf_einer_Kokusnussschale_Ancistrus_dolichopterus_P1010134.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancistrus_sp_head.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancistrus_sp._--_NOT_dolichopterus_--_male.jpg https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0038120 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sexual_dimorphism_in_Bolbometopon_muricatum.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red-lipped_Bat_fish.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wolf_eel_eating_a_sea_urchin.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wolf_eel.png https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfOr1xBFLew


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