Why Does The Red-Lipped Batfish Look Like That?

Everyone knows now that the deep sea has a monopoly on strange fish. There is the uncanny inflation of the gulper eel , the peeled-grape eyes of the barreleye , and the eternal frown of the sea toad . These spooky fish's great and insurmountable distance from us might offer some reassurance that we are not likely to encounter them in the wild, at least not while either of us is alive. But the worl