Would You Kiss This Fish?

Those are some fine lips. Don't tell me they're not.

The thing is, if you kissed those lips, you couldn't even get her name. Not even her species! She (and a bunch of other mindblowing creatures) have only recently been discovered in the deepest parts of the deepest parts of the oceans (deep squared YES!!) and can now be seen in a fantastic book called The Deep-The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss by Claire Nouvian.

I've been checking out photos of strange things from the abyss forever, but this book is the winner. There are creatures that look like spaceships. Creatures that look like space stations. Wonderfully crazy jellyfish. And down in the deepest cracks of Davy Jones' locker, worms step up to the plate when it comes to fashion.

There are of course the requisite deep sea badasses, with mugs that say they WILL throw down with anything in Alien. But the beauties really get me. I am buying this book.

(This is the Dumbo Octopus. For real.)

Comments

[Jeff]

The Dumbo (aka Grimpoteuthis) already has a following, with T-shirts in germany, and comparisons made with the yellow pokemon character Pikachu.

[Bunty]

Right - is that its nose or its 'crown jewels'??

[Steve]

The very same Dumbo Octopus photo sits over my 7 year olds headboard. She immediately saw the Pikachu similarity, but amazingly deigned it to be an octopus.

She says she sleeps better with the mollusk presiding.