It looks like a Muppet.
i was gonna say this is a rejected muppet idea
“Father!”
Meet the Feebles.
“Damn, is this acid bunk? It’s been like an hour.”
The carpet:
I’ve seen more convincing muppets.
Triggered
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.
I keep reading it as woebegone.
I kept reading “tessellated”
I don’t believe you. You can’t convince me that someone didn’t smash Oscar the Grouch with a comically large wooden hammer and send him to the bottom of the ocean.
I loved these things as an ocean obsessed kid. Fun to see it mentioned; i haven’t thought about these for a long time!
Peak performance
What is everyone on about puppets? This looks like something out of neverending story. Turn around, look at what you see.
You mean one of the puppets from the Neverending story?
No, the horse.
Best play set ever.
That’s a goosefish.
Yer a goosefish!
Moo
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
If only I could give you two upvotes. One for Australia being the most dangerous place in the known universe, and two for the messed up looking D&D beastie. Well played, my friend.
IRL Shambling Mound was my first thought when I saw the picture.
The tasselled wobbegong has been reported to bite and kill humans unprovoked
hol’ up
With several records of apparently unprovoked attacks on people, the tasselled wobbegong has a reputation beyond other wobbegongs for aggressive behavior.
Is such a fucking funny sentence to me.
That reads like some Rick and Morty interdimensional cable shit
“The vicious… tongles of the tasselled wobbegong turn into… teeth, and they, chomp, on the wobbegong’s prey.”
Normally when I think of wobbegongs I think about cute, maybe a little strange-looking but otherwise harmless creatures. But then I remember that the tasselled wobbegong exists.
UNPROMPTED
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.