Being a water creature that is tasty must be weird. The water creatures who most resemble their environment are the ones who survive. For humans, that would be like being unable to score a date because you look nothing like a lamppost. To illustrate how critical it is that sea creatures stay camouflaged, we found twenty well-hidden examples from the sea:

Octopus

Do dumb predators ever mistake giant rocks for octopi, and eat them?

 

Skate Ray

Eventually, there will come an animal that enjoys the taste of sand. Then, this ray is doomed.

 

Coleman Shrimp

This shrimp is probably counting on predators to have some sort of seizure when attacking.

 

Tasseled Anglerfish

This fish is in desperate need of colored contact lenses.

 

Leaf Scorpionfish

It must be a hassle for an underwater creature to constantly have to live near a tree.

 

Bearded Scorpionfish

If fish could name their children, do you think they would all be named “Poison Bad-Tasting Scorpionfish?”

Octopus

You’d think they’d eventually learn some awesome martial arts with their eight appendages, rather than constantly having to tuck them out of predators’ sight.

 

Peacock Flounder

We’re confused as to the name, as peacocks love to be seen. Well, maybe not by predators.

 

Sea Urchin

Eventually, these water creatures will evolve to perfectly resemble discarded beer cans.

 

Cowry Snail

Not every fish could accessorize with a bright feather boa, yet still remain inconspicuous.

 

Needlefish

We wonder if, in a pinch, this water creature could dart through a fish’s digestive system and emerge alive out the other end.

 

Crocodile fish

Hide-and-seek must be boring for these camouflaged fish, because they are always hiding on the sea floor.

 

Octopus

What if the spaceship in The Abyss was really a giant octopus? Eight times the terror, that’s what.

 

Painted Frogfish

This is one of those hyper fish, where if their environment is dull they get anxious.

 

Ghost Pipefish

What happens when an underwater herbivore accidentally chows down on this camouflaged fish?

 

Day Octopus

We’re rooting that, eventually, this octopus learns to just pick a rock up and take it with them at all times.

 

Coral Reef Fish

Rocks are the fashion moguls of the aquatic world, everyone else is always copying their style.

 

Hawkfish

We’re not sure why a fish would be named after a bird, much less a ridiculous looking fish being named after a bird known for keen eyesight.

 

Banded Guitarfish

We would’ve called it “hide in the sand fish,” but this illustrates how much more exciting scientists are than us.

 

Speckled Sanddab

If you ever want to hide from a shark, roll around on the sea bed until silt is stuck all over your skin.