The teardrop fish looks very peculiar, is a kind of just need to change the size, can pretend to be an alien creature on earth, the look is hard to say. But the teardrop fish we see now are not real, they are photos of teardrop fish with "decompression sickness".

The water droplet fish is living in the deep sea fish about 1000 meters, adult body length of about 30 centimeters. In terms of appearance, its facial features are the most obvious, with a huge and drooping nose, the corners of its mouth downward, a look of indebtedness, and an overall feeling of fatness, just like a pile of Slime.

And this odd-looking fish gives the impression of being, in a word - ugly. It's not just me, but a few years ago, a foreign animal protection organization named the teardrop fish the "world's ugliest animal," an official seal of approval.

Through this campaign, the teardrop fish became a new generation of Internet celebrities, beating out many other strange-looking animals. But the teardrop fish we see now is not its original appearance. Let's take a look at the following picture:

This picture is of a teardrop fish that was found by a research ship in 2003, and was later placed in a highly concentrated ethanol solution by scientists. It also has half of a parasite exposed on it. The overall image looks like a lump of Slime with a runny nose, and is more abstract than the character in the cartoon.

Normally, a teardrop fish would not be found on the coast, and this one, which was found dead when it was found, had deteriorated to some degree after so many years of easy soaking in ethanol. Therefore, it can not be used as a representative photo of its image, and to see its original face, you need to go deeper into the 1,000-meter deep sea.

It has been said above, the water droplet fish lives in about 1000 meters underwater, the underwater pressure reaches 1×10^7Pa, equivalent to 1000 cubic meters of pressure (1 cubic meter of pressure = 1 ton), even if it is a block of iron will be squeezed and deformed. Most of the creatures that live here don't have swim bladders (for fear of being crushed and blown up by the water pressure).

To protect their guts, deep-sea creatures have come up with different tricks, and the teardrop fish ditch their swim bladders and discard their muscles. They convert most of their flesh into a gel-like substance (kind of like fat) that's slightly less dense than water, as a way to withstand deep-sea pressure while being both pliable and buoyant. (Note: Their bones are also softer.)

This specialized structure ensures its freedom of movement in the deep sea, allowing it to live a normal life. But that's just how it lives in the deep sea. Once it reaches sea level and the pressure suddenly drops, the body of the dropfish undergoes a rapid change. The body rapidly expands and becomes an oedematous "fat fish".

So the specimen soaked in the ethanol solution has in fact become much fatter, and has long since lost its original style. If you want to know the true nature of the water droplet, you can refer to its relative, the color-changing cryptic sculpin, which is close in size to the water droplet.

The water droplet fish lives in the deep sea, the whole body has no muscle, so the only way to hunt is to wait for a kind of rabbit, waiting quietly in a place until the sea urchin, sea shells and other creatures pass by, and in the attack to eat them. After all, abandoned the muscle, explosive power can not, can only wait for the enemy.

The following answer to the most wanted to know a question: it can eat? After investigation, I found that this fish is recognized by the Fisheries Association and is edible. But the texture is not good, as mentioned above, like fat, it's hard to taste the meat. If you can't get it right, you'll get sick from eating this "fat meat", so I suggest you don't try it easily.

While we don't catch dropheads, they are often caught by mistake in human deep-sea trawls. The teardrop fish that are fished out of the water will quickly have an adverse reaction, and even if the fisherman immediately releases it back into the sea, it will die because of the damage to its bodily functions.