Whether you like fish, raw, cooked or alive, everyone loves fish. 

Here are four fish that are a little different from your average fish.

The Frogfish:

The frogfish is a weird looking fish. It is really bumpy and lumpy, as it has a large mouth and perky skin. It looks like it has legs, but no, those are actually its fins. It looks like it’s walking around, but that is just its way of swimming. 

While the frogfish hunts its prey, it sits in the coral reef, waiting. Using the illicium (an extra fin used as a fishing rod), the frogfish lures the fish in. Then, the frogfish opens its mouth and swallows whatever is in front of it (a lot of what goes into its mouth is water). 

The frogfish also has the ability to camouflage while sitting and waiting for its food. Frogfish can be found in all areas of the global ocean, especially in shallower areas between temperate and tropical latitudes.

The Anglerfish:

A fish with interesting breeding habits is the anglerfish. The females are bigger than the males. When a male sees a female, it swims over and bites the female, attaching himself to the female like a parasite. Over time, the male becomes one with the female and becomes a sperm packet for the female.  

Female anglerfish reach sexual maturity at the age of 16, while male anglerfish reach sexual maturity at the age of six. Anglerfish are found in the murky depths of the Atlantic and Antarctic oceans in the midnight zone, which is the darkest place in the world.

The Hagfish:

A fish with a very interesting ability is the hagfish. It can produce a lot of slime that surrounds it like a slime safety blanket. This is so if a larger sea creature tries to eat it, the hagfish will release the slime, filling the predator’s mouth. Sometimes it can be so much slime that the predator will suffocate it, as it covers their gills. The slime gives hagfish a slippery exit when attacked by predators. People also use the fibers of the hagfish slime to make shootproof outfits like caviar, but it is much lighter and more flexible. The hagfish is found in the waters off the coasts of the North Pacific.

The Seahorse:

The seahorse is also another interesting fish. Like the anglerfish, seahorses also have weird mating habits. The male is the one who gives birth. The female gives the male the fertilized eggs to carry for about 30 days. The reason is that if the eggs get eaten, then the female seahorse can just create more eggs. With seahorses, they mate for life, and there can be 100-1000 baby seahorses in just one birth. Seahorses can be found in shallow temperate and tropical waters, around shallow reefs, seagrasses, and mangroves.