![]() “He’s from a family of fish that are known commonly as blobfish, or fathead sculpins,” says Kerryn, unscrewing the jar and clasping her specimen’s tail with long metal tweezers. (Image credit: Dean Sewell) Mr Blobby’s glow–up Where is Mr Blobby now? In a jar of preservation fluid the shade of date-night Riesling. In 2019 Kim Kardashian’s eldest child, North West, sprang from a pink hummer sporting fluffy Mr Blobby slippers.Īwaiting our rendezvous at the Australian Museum, suspended elegantly in a jar of preservation fluid the shade of date-night Riesling. He’s been printed on phone cases, t-shirts, doonas and tote bags. He was voted the world’s ugliest animal in 2013 and became the poster child for the UK’s Ugly Animal Preservation Society. Mr Blobby birthed the ‘Go Home Evolution, You’re Drunk’ meme. Kerryn’s image has been repurposed by the internet in thousands of cruel and creative ways. But the specimen dubbed ‘Mr Blobby’ became the expedition’s viral star. The expedition yielded all manner of fascinating animals, including more than 100 species new to science. ![]() Ichthyology Research Assistant at the the Australian Museum Research Institute Dr Kerryn Parkinson snapped the notorious portrait of the blobfish in 2003 aboard the NORFANZ cruise, a research expedition that trawled deep sea habitats between Australia and New Zealand to discover more about what lurks in our seas beyond the reach of sunlight. This creature – a blobfish dredged up from kilometre-deep waters off the north-west coast of New Zealand – is perhaps the world’s most famous fish specimen. But there’s a reason I haven’t stood him up. ![]()
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