The blobfish, Psychrolutes marcidus, has no gas bladder, but instead maintains its buoyancy because its body (a fleshy gelatinous mass) is less dense than the surrounding seawater.

Birch Aquarium at Scripps W.M. Keck Center Marine Vertabrates Collection Center for Scientific Computation in Imaging

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