Are they by any chance related?

The creature below is a specimen of the pink handfish. It belongs to a species found off the coast of Tasmania, and may possibly be extinct (more precisely, no-one has seen one since 1999).

Something about it seemed familiar.I puzzled over it for a few minutes, until the magic carpet of memory whisked me back to the sixties, and to a science fiction series called The Outer Limits. One of the episodes featured a species of intelligent fish. A quick search of Google images produced this fifty-year old lookalike:

An astonishing case of Nature imitating Art.