

Frilled sharks hunt like snakes, hiding in crevices and caves to pounce on prey. The frilled shark looks like an eel with fins. Apart from the gaping mouth, the frilled shark features 25 rows of sharp serrated teeth and six frilled gills. The ugly fish frilled shark has a wide mouth that continues to the back of the head. Frilled shark ©Photograph by Citron / CC BY-SA 3.0, distributed under Wikipedia Commons.
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Up close, the white sturgeon looks like a shark, given its bone plates on the skin and long anatomy. Its skeletons have cartilage instead of bone, and it uses a mouth that looks like a suction cup to feed on small mollusks and boneless creatures of the ocean. The white sturgeon is a large fish species native to North America. White sturgeon ©Photograph by Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, distributed under Flickr. The striped frogfish is like an underwater chameleon, changing colors based on the hues of its environment. Its behemoth mouth helps it swallow live prey. It has a strange globular and stretchy body. The striped frogfish grows to 22 cm and is primarily found in tropical waters of the world's oceans. Toadfish are prey to dolphins, and worst that happens when they are mating. Toadfish look hideous, and males have horny structures on their heads, which they use to seduce females. It hides in sands lying in wait for its prey which includes small fish and mollusks. The toadfish can live in hardship conditions and survives on little food. Toadfish ©2021 Photograph by, and distributed by Encyclopædia Britannica. The opinion is divided some consider the moonfish to be beautiful, but generally, it lacks that je ne sais quoi of ornamental fish. Moonfish is a warm-blooded fish species, only one of its kind known to scientists. This fish is reportedly the heaviest vertebrate fish with an average weight of one ton. Moonfish is a large bony fish with a bizarre prominent head covering a large section of its body. Sometimes they are blue or yellowish and other times greyish and brownish. They have a ball-like shape with bony tubercles on each side. The largest lumpfish ever caught weighed 9.6 kg and measured 61 cm long. Lumpfish females are several times larger than males. It lives in cold waters, and it's a poor swimmer because of its tiny fins. These poor, poor creatures feed on the sediment at the base of the ocean. They have seven pairs of limbs and two pairs of dorsal papillae. If you could dive 95000 meters to the belly of the ocean, sea pigs would be one of the ugly surprises waiting for you.

Sea pig ©Photograph by NOAA/MBARI, distributed under Wikimedia Commons. A few Uranoscopidae come with baits at the base of their mouth. The uranoscopidae burrows through the sand to suddenly spring up on unsuspecting prey. This fashionably ugly fish has its flattened body, big head, and fins that look scary. On the head, males have a light-emitting mechanism that they use for hunting and seducing females. Males grow to 3cm and females to a domineering 20 cm. It is little an underwater devil in the shape of a fish. One other fishy creature that you will find deep underwater is the deep-sea anglerfish. These looks, experts say, are an adaptation to survive in freezing waters. Wolffish are normally blue or light green. Wolffish is as long as eels, often with sizes of about 1.5 meters long. Scuba divers and marine researchers christened it Sea Cat. Imagine a fish with a cat-like head, a big mouth of serrated teeth, and globes of soulless black eyes. Sea depth pressure is to blame for the ugly and malleable appearance of blobfish. This unsightly fish is 30 cm long and is made up of a jelly mass that quickly loses its shape when brought above water. The blobfish is the world's ugliest fish based on a rating by the “Society for the Preservation of Ugly Animals.” Blobfish lives 1200 meters underwater. The Blobfish ©Photograph by Kerryn Parkinson NORFANZ Founding Parties, distributed under Australian Museum.

A few others emit electricity that may turn you into a vegetable. Others may do you more damage than a grizzly bear. These are the ghoulish goblins and vampires of the deep sea.
