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Ugly Deaf Muslim Punk Gurl! (not verified) says:

yuck. I won't be eating fish and chips for lunch today!

tech stuff (not verified) says:

Amazing photos! My fav is the Scaly Dragonfish...

Ryan (not verified) says:

fun list. i would add the wolf fish!

kletpto (not verified) says:

OMG !!
looks like these fish can simply kill prey by scaring them !

ChoiceDegree (not verified) says:

I will never look at goldfish the same again.

D (not verified) says:

The picture of the 'Fangtooth Preserved' is really an Anglerfish, just FYI

Greg (not verified) says:

Love it! The Tigerfish was scariest

Ron Paul Fan (not verified) says:

"littler" is not a word!

Should be 'smaller'.

JDIzzle (not verified) says:

Obviously you don't know the Candiru fish of the amazon, look it up and cringe.

Adam H Klein (not verified) says:

Fantastic post! Thanks, I enjoyed it a great deal.

bobby bobby bobby pants! (not verified) says:

I love the pictures i would sooo not want to come face to face with one of those suckers!

Christina (not verified) says:

Gross. I'm never getting in the water again and will probably have nightmares tonight! lol

Randy (not verified) says:

Fangtooth kinda looked like DS9's Morn.

JimmyHats (not verified) says:

Awesome post...i once crapped out a tiger fish....it hurt. http://www.thedrunkcanuck.com

Liggy Blough (not verified) says:

Holy cow!!! I can't believe there are that many ugly fish out there!!!

Brian Maffitt (not verified) says:

Great list, but I would add the Goblin Shark. It can extend it's teeth out of its mouth, Alien-style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZzehRHxtB8
Definitely more creepy than moray eels, which are kind of cuddly-cute when you get to know them. :)
Brian

gaurav (not verified) says:

thnx... now i am afraid of water even more....

y-tad (not verified) says:

Scary for sure, but if you really want to be scared, read up on the Needle Fish of the Amazon. Just thinking about them will make you cringe for months (or years) to come!

Dave (not verified) says:

there are Morays allover where I live. they slide back in their hole when you swim by

TC (not verified) says:

.............

Excellent and terrible post @ the same time

JJ (not verified) says:

Very interesting! Great post.
definitely needs some proofreading though.

syikin (not verified) says:

those are some scary pics. But i want to add that snakehead fish southeast asia is a yummy fish and quite expensive to fork out.

Ameer (not verified) says:

Placing the snakehead in any position other than #1 was a mistake. When they first started showing up in the States people were witnessing them eating pets and small deer.

Vid (not verified) says:

An Electric Eel would be much worse than any of these fish:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_eel

Aditya (not verified) says:

dude, you should definitely check out the toothpick fish. do a google. its tiny, translucent, slippery as hell, and goes up ur ass or worse, to feed on oxygenated blood.

Sunshine30 (not verified) says:

I have to say, very interesting.. The Tiger Fish scares me the most.. Those teeth are huge nand could take a good chuck out of me..

Alizee (not verified) says:

looks like these fish can simply kill prey by scaring them !

Valerio (not verified) says:

Mamma mia quanto sono brutti questi pesci!!!

Luca (not verified) says:

Yum, this makes me feeling like swimming... maybe... :D

ben e (not verified) says:

Also, I'd suggest the Alligator Gar - name fits, but also the fish is a monster- looks like one and could potentially grow large enough to eat a human just like it's namesake
If we're judging by appearance as well, check out the Elephant fish - very dodgy

Jennifer (not verified) says:

I noticed snakeheads on the list, and though the US isn't among the places they're supposed to inhabit, I've seen something much like them in Alabama. Around here they're called 'bowfin', and they have the same sort of appearance. I wonder if they're, perhaps, related. Friends of mine use to fish for them, and I even have a picture at home where my sister caught one that weighed 10+ lbs.

scary (not verified) says:

(-.-) they look very scary weirdly.i want to see nice fishes not scary ones but still they are cool and kind of good pics.one fish made me throw up...well i want to know about sharks there big, they have sharp teeth and they eat many fishes too.

ice9 (not verified) says:

Those little punk fish, deep and scared...I suggest a new lineup of fish we see and care about. The snakehead makes the list--now apparently flourishing in the Potomac River watershed in and around Washington, DC. I'd take the morays, too, but the rest of them are all looks (thought I've heard the tigerfish is the real deal, and they jump.)

I suggest: Silver and Bighead carp, exotics in the Mississippi system, running to 20 kilos, who jump when disturbed so they have brained a number of unwary boaters.

Bluefish. Running 8 kilos, they chew up baitfish and then regurgitate so they can eat some more. Run in violent schools; often found along beaches and inlets where they interact with people. Bloodily.

Flathead Catfish Will go 35 kilos in the south, usually in river and large impoundments. All head. (larger species--white and blue--are not as scary.) Still, some of my kin are happy going in after them in logjams and undercut banks, grabbing them out by the lower jaw, mano-a-gato. Cool.

Muskellunge Upwards of 30 kilos. Knows no fear. Frequently takes hooked fish at boatside, eats them like an ear of corn, gives you the fin, and drifts off.

ice

ice9 (not verified) says:

Bowfin (grindle) isn't a snakehead. It's a bowfin. Toothy, tenacious, but not a snakehead.

ice

Peter (not verified) says:

In response to:
"But though we’d like to think we’re no relation to these demons of the deep, in the evolutionary scheme of things all us land vertebrates are derived from our fishy cousins".

You stand to be corrected...I for one, and the author of this fine little list are not even remotely related to any fish. God made us just as we are, and we've always been humans. We haven't been around millions of years either as some other toothy creature. I do believe in evolution, but rather microevolution not macro. Furthermore, no sentence should start with "but". Get some education before writing your next article, and try a little theology; It won't kill you and it might even give you everlasting life. Afterall, if I derived from a fish...what's the next mutation.

Fan (not verified) says:

That Angler Fish looks just like the "JRR Tolkien - Orc Species"

j (not verified) says:

time to get a pool

John (not verified) says:

Creepy! I was expecting to see alligator gar also.

http://www.mosportsmen.com/fishing/gatorgar/mouthone.jpg

Devin (not verified) says:

How about the stonefish, Synanciea verrucosa? It's the most venomous fish in the world. Your dead in 2 hours if your stung, and for that 2 hours you'll probably wish you were dead because of the ungodly pain. I think this fish should have made the countdown a least.... just my 2 cents

DSFlyman (not verified) says:

Wow, those are some creepy beasts, but how come Abe Vigoda didn't make the list?

matt (not verified) says:

Dude you forgot the scariest fish of all. The pecker fish. It is a subspesies akin to the catfish but it feeds on nitrogenis waste. It can swim into a human urethra and then anchor itself with the spines on its fins.

nkhc (not verified) says:

The stomach in mouth pic HAS to be the worst !

Lizzie Gee (not verified) says:

I don't believe ANY nonhuman animal (fish or otherwise) can be classified as "diabolical." Frankly, I am fed up and appalled by the number of TV programs whose sole aim is to frighten people about nature. Just think about the titles of programs--things along the lines of "The Fury of Mother Nature" or "Killer Beasts of the Jungle." Stuff like this presents the normal workings of nature as a freak show, and the natural, instinctive behavior of animals as somehow psychopathic. Give me a break! No nonhuman animal ever built gas chambers or atom bombs or napalm. We need to focus on our own ethical shortcomings and leave the animals out of it.

Bot (not verified) says:

And that is why I am freakin terrified of the ocean

im late for work (not verified) says:

Im not denying the fantastic information in this post but when writing on subjects such as this it should be avoided incriminating the animals. They already have a hard time as it is without people thinking they have intentions behind their actions. "cruel-faced deep-dwelling assassin". Incriminating creatures leads to people being misled and thats how they get targetted. Sharks have suffered because people have misled their nature. Becareful how you word things.

celesia (not verified) says:

oh my lord what is this stuff but it is fun

celesia (not verified) says:

ho my god this world is crazy

Fonzy BWN (not verified) says:

Awesome picture, will not get into any water or even go in a small boat anymore.

Glen (not verified) says:

Oh Man...I really don't like the look of that TigerFish, no way!

Pete (not verified) says:

Very cool list, but you missed the 'most evil' of all fish (other than sharks). A 20lb. Bluefish would slice and dice any other fish on this list. Pound for pound, no fish on Earth, not even Piranhas, are even close to being as ferocious, deadly, and effective at killing than the Bluefish (even solo). Even the Tiger Fish would have no chance against a Bluefish half its size. The Eels would be bitten in half and would have to fight with half a body. Bluefish may not "look" as cool, but looking diabolical, and actually being diabolical are two totally different things. Good list, but you missed "Numero Uno". Any fisherman or diver will tell you that.