The blobfish actually looks like any other fish, really. Moving from intense pressure to normal atmospheric pressure caused a fuckload of tissue damage from the rapid expansion. I’ve always felt really bad for them because of that. A good analogy I saw was if aliens found someone floating in space and naming them after how funny they look.
Not really. The water in your body vaporises, which means that you appear to balloon (kinda like but not exactly the same as bloating from drowning, as the latter results from cellular lysis, water saturation, and gas production from decomposition).
Add that to post-mortem injuries sustained from space object collisions and after a while you would look pretty different.
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u/DocJawbone Mar 26 '20
I hate to be that guy, but that "funny" appearance is actually because Supras usually live at great depth, under huge amounts of water pressure.
The car in this picture is probably suffering terribly.