https://images.app.goo.gl/2NV7pTaVMZFAxN68A

I want one! What kinda food do I get? 🥰

I keep reading it as woebegone.

It looks like a Muppet.

What is everyone on about puppets? This looks like something out of neverending story. Turn around, look at what you see.

I loved these things as an ocean obsessed kid. Fun to see it mentioned; i haven't thought about these for a long time!

Is it wearing a gilly suit?

It is native to Australia, which doesn't surprise me at all given that it looks more like a trap designed by a deranged dungeon keeper than a creature

Unless it sings a happy song teaching me letters or numbers, I’m out.

"Damn, is this acid bunk? It's been like an hour."

The carpet:

My son had a book called "You're Called What?!" which featured a tasseled wobbegong, alongside other animals such as the Shovelnose Guitarfish, Bone Eating Snot Flower Worm, and the Aha Ha.

I've seen more convincing muppets.

Obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasselled_wobbegong

there's a whole order of carpet sharks. orectolobiformes

My partner and I have this thing where we ask each other if we are the other person's x, where x is something ridiculous, cute, grotesque, or profane. For example, I once asked my partner if I was her gutter-bloated corpse, to which she, of course, answered in the affirmative.

I'll soon find out if I am actually a tasselled wobbegong carpet shark in the eyes of my partner.

As an aside, I asked the corpse thing after reading this delightful line from one of my very favorite books:

“Body found floating by the docks,” Glokta breathed, “bloated by seawater and horribly mutilated… far… far beyond recognition.”

When I was getting my bio degree, carpet sharks (including Wobbegons) are what I was most interested in studying. Just about every family in the order is fascinating in some way.

But do you think it has cute babies?

That's a goosefish.