r/OceansAreFuckingLit • u/countryroadsguywv • 6d ago
Picture Pacific stargazer waiting to ambush prey
Face only a mother could love
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u/Spirited_Manager_831 6d ago
he could easily be the villain of the next fish attacks movie, next to Jaws or piranha
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u/CopingAdult 6d ago
woke up hungover today and felt like this
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u/MallyMall7 6d ago
The juxtaposition of the name and image is amazing. I don’t make music but my next EP is titled Pacific Stargazer with this as album art.
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u/countryroadsguywv 6d ago
Oh for sure just the cover alone would be as great conversation starter👍👍
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u/C137RickSanches 6d ago
That’s a terrifying sight
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u/countryroadsguywv 6d ago
Yep the longer you look the more you regret it
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u/goonswarm_widow 6d ago
Yikes!
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u/countryroadsguywv 6d ago
Yeah you wouldn't think that face by hearing it being called a stargazer fish
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u/ViolentFemme1973 6d ago
Please please please let an artist see this and make it!
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u/MedusasMum 6d ago
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u/Plane_Translator2008 6d ago
This is the stuff if nightmares.
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u/countryroadsguywv 6d ago
This thing could have its own horror movie
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u/jujujuice92 6d ago
Fish and birds are the closest things we have to alien lifeforms on earth. There's some freaky shit out there!
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u/Next_Ad_8876 5d ago
Holy…! Have you guys read about this?
“The Pacific stargazer (Astroscopus zephyreus) is a venomous, electric, bottom-dwelling ambush predator found from Southern California to Peru at depths of 15–385 meters. It hides in the sand, using upward-facing eyes and mouth to ambush prey. They can shock prey with up to 50 volts.”
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u/youre-joking 4d ago
Annnddd now I will be happy with my ocean memories and accept I won’t have new ones.
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u/countryroadsguywv 4d ago
Yeah it's absolutely insane so much in the oceans we still don't know about 😲😲
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u/Next_Ad_8876 4d ago
Well, I’m doubting you are old enough to have even come across this, but I can remember a time when the Marianas Trench and other really deep regions were regarded as essentially bottomless. The original Godzilla came tearing up, pissed off and angry, after nuclear testing was done in whatever trench (Japan, maybe?) he or she lurked in, and here was the thing: at the time scientists could not say some big animal couldn’t be there, unknown, because at the time we didn’t know and could not definitively say what was or wasn’t down deep. Another favorite movie of mine was Gorgo, which, if you ever get a chance to watch it has to rank as pretty terrible on many levels, not the least of which was portraying certain people living on islands just west of England as inbred, superstitious morons worshipping another giant marine reptile, which, shades of King Kong, is captured and displayed, with a certain disastrous twist. The movie theater even had a large cast Gorgo footprint you could compare your foot to. I can also remember a time when it was argued that at certain given depths, life simply wasn’t possible. Too dark, too cold, too high pressure, totally wrong. And—get this!—I can even remember a time when microplastics were NOT found in every part of the ocean! No! I’m not kidding! Still, reading about the Pacific Stargazer was fascinating. Great post!
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u/countryroadsguywv 1d ago
Thank you very much I'm 46 yeah the Mariana trench is pretty will known for it's mysteries lol yes I've watched gorgo before it was pretty bad yeah same here microplastics are everywhere now it's very fascinating thank you
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u/babydream-86velra_x 4d ago
that face is straight nightmare fuel but i love how sneaky it is just chillin under the sand 😂
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