The death of one of the sea\u2019s uglier creatures has led to an outpouring online. What is it about this unfortunate creature that has evoked such big feelings?<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s an unexpected addition to our 2025 bingo card: young women across the internet have been devastated by the demise of a nightmarish fanged fish. A black seadevil anglerfish (unflatteringly described<\/a> by one marine biologist as \u201cpretty much evolved to be a giant head\u201d), usually a deep-sea dweller, was recently caught on camera<\/a> swimming close to the surface by a shark research group near Tenerife. Sadly, apparently sick or injured, it died.<\/p>\n This, however, was only the start of the anglerfish\u2019s journey in the hearts and TikToks of young women. The fish\u2019s story has triggered an outpouring of emotion. The narrative they have adopted is that the tiny anglerfish, who lived her life in darkness, wanted to feel the \u201csun on her face\u201d<\/a>, so swam alone through the vast ocean to do that before expiring. There have been tattoos<\/a>, poetry and oceans of tears<\/a>. \u201cIf you have a girlfriend right now, do yourself a favour and go ask her how she\u2019s feeling about the anglerfish,\u201d wrote one TikTok user<\/a>. \u201cThere is a 98% chance she has already bawled her eyes out about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The death of one of the sea\u2019s uglier creatures has led to an outpouring online. What is it about this unfortunate creature that has evoked such big feelings? Here\u2019s an unexpected addition to our 2025 bingo card: young women across the internet have been devastated by the demise of a nightmarish fanged fish. A black … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}